death_date city nationality party birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
9 august 2007 oran algerian no party affiliation 27 november 1948 air algérie , chairman and ceo 27 july 2001 mohamed tayeb benouis
 9 august 2007 mohamed tayeb benouis
mohamed tayeb benouis

mohamed tayeb benouis -lrb- 27 november 1948 -- 9 august 2007 -rrb- was an algerian aviator and business executive who served as the director general of air algérie , the national airline of algeria , from 2001 to 2007 .
a native of algiers , tayeb benouis was initially the pilot of algeria 's presidential plane , before being named , in 1999 , the interim director of air algérie and , two years later , its top executive officer .
during his term , he presided over one of the most prominent periods of growth and renewal in the airline 's history .
in particular , he oversaw the inauguration of several new international routes , including the final one he was able to supervise personally , `` algiers -- montreal '' , raising air algérie 's standing among international air carriers .
another of his top concerns was the revitalization of air algérie 's fleet .
under his leadership , the enterprise , through its domestic and international networks , had been transporting annually more than three million passengers and 20,000 tons of freight , while serving 25 countries and realizing , in 2005 , a sales turnover of 48.7 billion dinars , a growth of 5 % compared to 2004 , and net revenue increase of 8 billion dinars .
following his official installation as chief executive officer in 2001 , tayeb benouis launched a bond drive to restore the airline 's depleted financial resources and to finance its program of acquisition of fourteen aircraft , namely six atr , five airbus and three boeing between 2003 and 2005 .
mohamed tayeb benouis died in a parisian hospital at the age of 58 , following a lengthy illness .
