Peter Hill
Chief executive officer
Oman Air Peter Hill joined BOAC (now British Airways) in 1961 as a commercial trainee. In 1974 he joined Gulf Aviation in Bahrain as reservation superintendant and was part of the team that created Gulf Air. In 1978 Peter Hill joined Maurice Flanagan in DNATA. Then in late 1984, he was part of the small original team that put together the first business plan for Emirates.
1996 saw his amicable departure from Emirates to pursue a private business venture in London, but two years later, in 1998, he was persuaded by Emirates to return to manage their recent investment in Air Lanka, based in Colombo. For the next ten years, in his position as CEO, he successfully steered the rebranded Sri Lankan Airlines through a series of challenges and kept the Group profitable for the most part, whilst helping it gain a reputation as probably the best airline in South Asia. A return to Dubai in the final days of 2007 saw him assisting the newly appointed CEO of Dubai’s first low cost carrier (now Fly Dubai). Following an approach from the Government of Oman, Peter Hill was delighted to take up the post of CEO Oman Air and is now busily working on creating a world-class airline based in Muscat, focused upon developing a network of sustainable air services that will promote the Sultanate’s growing leisure and business travel markets.
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