Senior vice president of worldwide sales will leave company at end of 2018 after more than 30 years in industry
United Airlines senior vice president of worldwide sales Dave Hilfman will retire at the
end of the year. He has led sales at United, including the carrier’s relationships with corporate buyers and travel agencies, since its 2010 merger with Continental Airlines, where he was senior vice president of worldwide sales from 2004 to 2010. Hilfman has spent more than 30 years in the industry with United, Continental and Eastern Airlines. He held sales positions of increasing responsibility with Eastern throughout the southeastern US until 1986 when he joined Continental. He served at that airline as regional sales manager in New York and director of the western sales division based in Los Angeles. In 1992, Hilfman moved to Continental’s corporate headquarters in Houston, where he held the positions of senior director of US field sales, vice president of multinational sales and revenue programs and vice president of sales and reservations.