The Board of FastJet Plc has announced the appointment of Nico Bezuidenhout as Chief Executive Officer of the company. Nico will take up his position and join the Board as an executive director on 1 August, 2016. Nico will be joining FastJet from Mango Airlines where he has been CEO since Mango commenced operations ten years ago. During his tenure, Nico grew the airline's market share to 25% of the South African domestic air travel market and the fleet to ten Boeing 737-800 aircraft. He also achieved the lowest unit cost within the South African aviation industry through high aircraft utilization and sustained good load factors. In addition to playing a pivotal role in the success of Mango, which has been profitable in eight of the past ten years, Nico has also twice acted in the capacity of interim CEO of its parent company.