{"id":31432,"date":"2026-06-19T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31432"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:41:41","slug":"matteoni-succeeds-forgie-as-prestwick-airport-ceo-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31432","title":{"rendered":"Matteoni succeeds Forgie as Prestwick Airport CEO \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie-.png\" alt=\"Ian Forgie\" class=\"wp-image-159214 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie-.png\" alt=\"Ian Forgie\" class=\"wp-image-159214 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie-.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie--300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie--768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ian-Forgie--600x394.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ian Forgie: retiring<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Prestwick Airport chief executive Ian Forgie will retire at the end of the week and hand over the reins of the business to operations director Jules Matteoni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Forgie, who joined the airport as chief financial officer, has overseen a return to profit, largely on the back of an increase in cargo business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, the ultimate goal of selling the facility remains elusive following the breakdown of talks with three potential buyers in eight years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It will continue to be underpinned by the Scottish government which acquired it for \u00a31 in 2013. New Economy, Transport and Tourism Secretary Stephen Flynn is due to visit in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Matteoni has worked at the airport for about 33 years and has played a key role in securing cargo busines with China via deals with Air China Cargo and China Southern Air Logistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Prestwick Airport now has 15 cargo flights per week connecting with China\u2019s mainland on the back of growth in brands such as Temu, Shein and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cargo tonnage with China few about fourfold in the financial year to March 2026, compared with the prior 12 months, amid  expectations of further growth this financial year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Matteoni #succeeds #Forgie #Prestwick #Airport #CEO #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Forgie: retiring Prestwick&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2833,266,529,265,18252,18249,18250,18251,1923,13410,14953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}