Former airline executive to run airport board

NAPLES — The City of Naples Airport Authority named former American Airlines executive Donna Messer chair for 2016.

Messer heads a Naples firm that specializes in coaching, mentoring, team building and facilitation, and consults on labor management collaboration. She previously spent three decades with American Airlines in a variety of executive positions.

Recently, Elite Airways announced regularly scheduled commercial flights between Naples and Newark, N.J., and Portland, Maine. The charter operator is based in Portland and is the first carrier to offer commercial flights from Naples in nine years.