The Wings Associates and Rifton Aviation partnership has appointed Rick Makkawy to promote sales in Europe and the Middle East. In his new position, Makkawy will be responsible for promoting the Wings/Rifton business of acquiring, selling and servicing pre-owned jets and will also market Rifton's FBO services in New York and the UK. Makkawy comes to the partnership from Executive Jet, where he marketed the Boeing Business Jet within NetJets. Previously he was a market researcher for Lynton Group.