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26th May 1972, Page 48
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Ken Flight

• The new national chairman of the Institute of Traffic Administration, Ken Flight is a man of forthright views who is not afraid to express them publicly. At 42 he is a very go-getting, hard working and hard playing executive. He finds time for energetic sports — squash, badminton and swimming but not yet for the more leisurely pastime of sailing which he hopes one day to take up — among a wide variety of other interests as well as running his businesses.

As a well-known coach operator, Flights Tours Ltd, and travel agent, he has travelled the world, won most of the tip awards in coach competitions here and in Europe and takes a great interest in the PVOA — he has just stepped down from the chair of the West Midland section — and in the loTA. He is a member of the Institute of Marketing, and of Rotary; of a motoring organization; of several international travel organizations and travel agents' associations. He also serves in consultative capacities on transport and finance matters.

From the age of 21 when his father died leaving a business with two coaches and three taxis and three staff including Ken, the business has developed into a luxury coach fleet of 21 vehicles, retail garage businesses in Birmingham, insurance brokerage and a travel agency.

Ken Flight is a great enthusiast for all he does; learning and training he is particularly interested in. He maintains that in 20 years in transport rarely has he attended a meeting or conference when he has not gained some valuable experience from being there. He believes that the loTA has a major role to play in training tomorrow's management and he feels that the more transport people meet together the greater the understanding of transport problems. The Institute, he said, has wider scope and a greater role to play in the training sphere and in its influence on the youth of today and the future of transport in particular. "Britain's entry into the EEC opens up a futuristic horizon to the transport of freight and passengers by road, rail, sea or air."

As the national chairman of an Institute committed to all these transport modes in the year when Britain's entry to EEC should finally be accomplished, Ken Flight's vigour, enthusiasm and foresight will be exercised to

the full. D. L.


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