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Marriott Bay Area Business Council Organizes 2nd Annual San Francisco Torch Relay Benefiting UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals on Sunday, October 6, at Oracle Park

September 27, 2019 by PressEditor

The St. Regis San Francisco is pleased to announce its support for the annual Torch Relay for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a local 5k marathon benefiting UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland that will take place Sunday, October 6 starting at Oracle Park. The St. Regis General Manager Jacqueline Volkart serves as Chair of the Marriott Bay Area Business Council, a coalition of more than 100 Marriott properties in the Bay Area which are organizing and sponsoring The San Francisco Torch Relay.

The Torch Relay for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is a unique multi-day event where participants can walk or run a segment of The Torch Relay at events throughout the country to raise money for their local CMN Hospital, locally, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. Since its beginnings in 2002, The Torch Relay has raised more than $15 million for children’s hospitals across the country.

“I am delighted to be part of the Marriott Bay Area Business Council team that has brought this event to San Francisco,” said Jacqueline Volkart. In her capacity as Chair of the Marriott Bay Area Business Council, together with Yoke Yong, Chair of the Next-Gen, BABC brought the first Torch Relay to San Francisco in 2018. “It’s an inspiring event on so many levels. The Torch Relay helps build and strengthen a community of people who support our local hospitals. Everyone can do a little something to help, whether they walk, run, volunteer or donate. And, all of the funds we raise are kept local, helping Bay Area kids and their families meet health challenges.”

The Marriott Bay Area Business Council is comprised of the leadership from more than 100 Marriott hotels in the Bay Area. As Chair of the Council and General Manager of the St. Regis San Francisco, Ms. Volkart helps lead several projects that give back to the local community, including The San Francisco Torch Relay, Coastal Cleaning, Earth Hour and Earth Day, Women in Leadership Series, SF Love our City, Cultural Days, Oakland Pride, Bridges and HARF, among many others.

The San Francisco Torch Relay will be held on Sunday, October 6 starting and finishing at Oracle Park. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. and the relay begins at 10:00 a.m. and includes a walk/run along the waterfront of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. For more information and to register or donate, please visit The San Francisco Torch Relay.

About The St. Regis San Francisco

The St. Regis San Francisco opened in November 2005, introducing a new dimension of luxury and timeless elegance to the city of San Francisco.  The 40-story landmark building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, includes 100 private residences rising 19 levels above the 260-room St. Regis Hotel.  From legendary butler service, “anticipatory” guest care and impeccable staff training to the signature Remède Spa, luxurious amenities and interior design by Yabu Pushelberg of Toronto, The St. Regis San Francisco delivers an unmatched guest experience.  The St. Regis San Francisco is located at 125 Third Street. Telephone: 415.284.4000. Website: stregissanfrancisco.com  

Media contacts:  Hwee Peng Yeo, Laura Gigounas, Danyelle Simpkins and Grecia Corleto at Glodow Nead Communications, 415.394.6500 or StRegisPR@glodownead.com .

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Ethiopian Airlines CEO believes in The New Spirit of Africa and pledges to work with Boeing

March 25, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Ethiopian Airlines issued a statement today.

He wrote: “It has been more than two weeks since the tragic crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302. The heartbreak for the families of the passengers and crew who perished will be lasting. This has forever changed their lives, and we at Ethiopian Airlines will feel the pain forever. I pray that we all continue to find strength in the weeks and months ahead.

The people of Ethiopia feel this very deeply, too. As a state-owned airline and the flagship carrier for our nation, we carry the torch for the Ethiopian brand around the world. In a nation that sometimes is saddled with negative stereotypes, accidents like this affect our sense of pride.

Yet this tragedy won’t define us. We pledge to work with Boeing and our colleagues in all the airlines to make air travel even safer.

As the largest aviation group on the continent of Africa, we represent The New Spirit of Africa and will continue to move forward. We are rated as a 4-star global airline with a high safety record and member of Star Alliance. That will not change.

Full Cooperation

The investigation of the accident is well underway, and we will learn the truth. At this time, I do not want to speculate as to the cause. Many questions on the B-737 MAX airplane remain without answers, and I pledge full and transparent cooperation to discover what went wrong.

As it is well known in our global aviation industry, the differences training between the B-737 NG and the B-737 MAX recommended by Boeing and approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration called for computer-based training, but we went beyond that. After the Lion Air accident in October, our pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max 8 were fully trained on the service bulletin issued by Boeing and the Emergency Airworthiness Directive issued by the USA FAA. Among the seven Full Flight Simulators that we own and operate, two of them are for B-737 NG and the B-737 MAX. We are the only airline in Africa among the very few in the world with the B-737 MAX full flight Simulator. Contrary to some media reports, our pilots who fly the new model were trained on all appropriate simulators.

The crews were well trained on this aircraft.

Immediately after the crash and owing to the similarity with the Lion Air Accident, we grounded our fleet of Max 8s. Within days, the plane had been grounded around the world. I fully support this. Until we have answers, putting one more life at risk is too much.

Belief in Boeing, U.S. Aviation

Let me be clear: Ethiopian Airlines believes in Boeing. They have been a partner of ours for many years. More than two-thirds of our fleet is Boeing. We were the first African airline to fly the 767, 757, 777-200LR, and we were the second nation in the world (after Japan) to take delivery of the 787 Dreamliner. Less than a month ago, we took delivery of yet another new two 737 cargo planes (a different version from the one that crashed). The plane that crashed was less than five months old.

Despite the tragedy, Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines will continue to be linked well into the future.

We also are proud of our association with U.S. aviation. The general public does not know that Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 with help from Trans World Airlines (TWA). In the early years, our pilots, flight crews, mechanics and managers were actually employees of TWA.

In the 1960s, after the handoff, TWA continued in an advisory capacity, and we’ve continued to use American jets, American jet engines and American technology. Our mechanics are Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified.

Our first direct passenger service to the U.S. began in June 1998, and today we fly direct to Africa from Washington, Newark, Chicago and Los Angeles. This summer, we will begin flying from Houston. Our cargo flights connect in Miami, Los Angeles and New York.

U.S. travel to Africa has increased more than 10 percent in the last year, second only to travel to Europe in term of the percentage increase — traveling to Africa has increased more than traveling to Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, South America, Central America or the Caribbean. The future is bright, and Ethiopian Airlines will be here to meet the demand.

In less than a decade, Ethiopian Airlines has tripled the size of its fleet – we now have 113 Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier aircraft flying to 119 international destinations in five continents. We have one of the youngest fleet in the industry; our average fleet age is five years while industry average is 12 years. Moreover, we have tripled the passenger volume, now flying more than 11 million passengers annually.

Each year, our Aviation Academy trains more than 2,000 pilots, flight attendants, maintenance workers and other employees for Ethiopian Airlines and several other African airlines. We are the company others turn to for aviation expertise. In the last 5 years, we have invested more than half a Billion dollars in training and other infrastructure in our Addis Ababa base.

We will work with investigators in Ethiopia, in the U.S. and elsewhere to figure out what went wrong with flight 302.

We resolve to work with Boeing and others to use this tragedy to make the skies safer for the world.”

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