Company Management
Mr. Lupitski was born in Estonia in 1977. He has university degree in management.
He started his aviation carrier in 1997 and since then worked as Commercial Director for Enimex Airlines and Director Operations for JP Air.
Aleksei has a deep knowledge and valueable experience in airline management, sales and regulatory requirements.
Mr. Lupitski joined the company in 2009 as Managing Director.
Mr. Knipas was born in Lithuania in 1948. He began his flying carrer in 1967 and has since accumulated a total flying time of more than 11.000 hours on piston, jet and turboprop aircrafts. He began his administratvive carreer in 1976. Since then he has been in the position of Flight Operations Manager and Flight Instructor in various companies in Lithuania such as Air Lithuania, Aviapaslauga and Amber Air. Mr. Knipas has during his aviation carreer gained a wealth of experience and regulatory knowledge which serves the company well.
Mr. Knipas has been with the company since it was founded back in 2005 as held the position of Flight Operations Manager during the whole time. He has also had the responsibility of liaising with various agencies in Lithuania and has carried out other administrative duties.
Mr. Šapola was born in 1977 in Lithuania. He graduated from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Antanas Gustaitis Aviation institute in 2002 with a Master degree in Engineering.
He started his aviation carrier as maintenance engineer in 1997 and worked at a few different companies with big success in the general/military aviation until 2003. From 2003 until 2005 he worked as an Airworthiness Inspector at the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Authority where he was responsible for aircraft registration, airworthiness, as well as for production and maintenance organizations approvals and supervision.
He has attended various training programs in general/quality systems management, auditing, international/Europe/National aviation law and regulations, as well as type training for several aircraft. He joined the company as Maintenance Manager when it was founded in 2005.
Mr. Žakys was born in Lithuania in 1979. He graduated from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University with a Masters Degree in Avionics.
His aviation carrier started in 1997 as an avionics engineer where he worked as such for various companies Until 2003. From 2003 until 2006 he worked as an Airworthiness Inspector at the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Authority and was responsible for aircraft airworthiness, as well as for production and maintenance organizations approvals and supervision.
Parallel to his carreer he has attended various training programs in quality systems management, auditing, international aviation law and regulations, as well as type training for several aircraft. He joined Avion Express in in 2006 as Quality Manager.