Christine Wetherell

Candidate Services Manager

Christine Wetherell serves as API’s Candidate Services Manager. A lifelong pilot and seasoned business aviation leader, she is responsible for ensuring that API has a strong, diverse and current pool of candidates to address the needs of the company’s corporate aviation and high-net-worth clients. In that role, she cultivates candidate relationships, advises on job openings and changes, and helps jobseekers enroll and maintain their profiles as API Registered Professionals.™

Additionally, Wetherell assists API’s recruitment team to locate top industry talent, identifying the most qualified candidates for API’s aviation-related positions, including leadership, maintenance, flight operations, in-flight services and scheduling/dispatch.

Wetherell has extensive regional and national networks across the aviation industry. Before joining API, she was director of administration for Wings Insurance and FlyWise Aviation, jointly owned companies based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She led the day-to-day operations and human resources functions for both organizations, served as a team leader and managed all aviation events. Wetherell also served as director of client services for an aircraft management company, sales and marketing executive for an aircraft products company and general manager for a charter operator.

Wetherell learned to fly at a young age, and soloed on the day she graduated from high school. She then graduated from the FlightSafety International Academy Professional Pilot Program, and spent 10 years as a professional pilot. She was a flight instructor and flew for a variety of firms, including a Part 121 regional carrier, a Part 91 operation and a Part 135 charter operator.

A long-time member of the Minnesota Business Aviation Association (MBAA), Wetherell has served as its Executive Director and Board President. She is also a member of Women in Corporate Aviation and the National Business Aviation Association, and serves on the NBAA International Operators Committee.