Helvetic Airways appoints new media relations officer

Simon Benz assumed responsibility for corporate communications at Helvetic Airways on 1 October. Benz, who is 46, takes charge of all internal and external communications at the Swiss regional carrier, and will further serve as the prime contact for all media inquiries.

Simon Benz succeeds Mehdi Guenin, who left the company at the end of September. “We are delighted that, in Simon, we have secured the services of such an experienced specialist for our airline,” says Helvetic Airways CEO Tobias Pogorevc. “As a communications consultant and a former journalist focusing on the tourist travel industry, Simon has been well familiar with the aviation sector for more than 14 years now. He can also draw on an extensive network of contacts and connections throughout the media world.”

Simon Benz has assumed his new Helvetic Airways duties under a collaboration between the airline and the PrimCom communications agency, which specializes in tourism and travel, and for whom he has been serving as a consultant since 2014. Prior to this he spent seven years with tourism industry magazine Travel Inside, the last two of them in the additional capacity of deputy editor-in-chief of the MICE-tip magazine (formerly MICE Inside – meetings, incentives, conventions, events).

A native of the Basel region, Simon Benz holds a master’s (lic. phil. I) degree in media, film and Japanese studies from the University of Zurich.