Team
Lee Lipton
Lee Lipton offers two decades of leadership experience with airlines and airports in Canada, the U.S., Caribbean, and Europe.
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Lee’s airline experience career includes responsibility for network strategy, route development, and flight scheduling and covers a range of business models and geographies.
At both WestJet (Canada) and Aer Lingus (Ireland), the business included transatlantic operations, major connecting hubs, and planning regional airline networks. During his tenure at Southwest Airlines (U.S.), Lee led flight scheduling, network planning, and strategy functions for the low-cost carrier.
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Throughout his airline career, Lee also focused on enhancing network planning and flight scheduling processes, implementing proactive route performance management, and building close partnerships with destination marketing organisations, economic development agencies, and airport leaders.
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Lee took the same collaborative approach while working on the airport side of the table. He led air service development as well as traffic and operations forecasting for the Vantage Group, growing passenger and cargo service across the network of 10 airports in five countries. These airports represented very different regions and market dynamics where Lee worked with a wide range of regional, national, and international airlines.
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Lee is based in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to leading Span, he serves as an Ambassador for Airlink, a global charity connecting airlines and humanitarian organizations for disaster relief as well as a Board of Directors member for the Scandinavian Community Centre Society and Icelandic Canadian Club of British Columbia.
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He is also a guest lecturer on airline network planning at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business.
Affiliation
ASM (Airport Strategy & Marketing) is a leading air service development specialist firm providing global route development strategy and implementation services.
Its core customers include airports and destination marketing organisations, bringing a 25+ year history of partnering with airports and regions to secure new routes and grow airline passenger traffic.​
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ASM is also part of the Aviation Week Network, the world’s largest source of aviation and aerospace data, intelligence, media, and events.
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Span and ASM collaborate on a range of airport air service development, traffic and operations forecasting, aviation infrastrucutre transaction, and other projects.
Purposeful
Partner
Airlink is a global humanitarian organisation delivering critical aid to communities in crisis by providing airlift and logistical solutions to nonprofit partners, changing the way the humanitarian community responds to disasters around the world. Learn more about Airlink.