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28 May 2009 07:00



28 May 2009

Dart Group PLC ("the Company")

Appointment of non-executive director

Dart Group PLC, the aviation and distribution group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Laurence, aged 40, as a non-executive director of the Company, with immediate effect.

Mark was for five years a member of the transport equity research team at Kitcat & Aitken and then at Smith New Court, which was subsequently taken over by Merrill Lynch in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Mark was part of the UK Equity Strategy team at Merrill Lynch and in 1997 he joined Collins Stewart, becoming a shareholder the following year. Following the successful sale of Collins Stewart in 2001, Mark has pursued a career in fund management, devising and overseeing the launch a number of innovative investment products. Mark is a Governor of Bryanston School in Dorset and a member of the Endowment Investment Committee of King's College University, London.

Further information as required to be disclosed under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules, is set out below.

For further information, please contact:

Andrew Merrick

Group Finance Director

07788 565358

0113 238 7444

Andy Pedrette/Joanne Royden-Turner

Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance Limited

020 7131 4000

The following are Mark's current directorships and those held within the last five years:

*Rock Capital Group plc was placed into administration on 11 November 2008. The directors' estimate of the creditors' deficiency as at 11 November 2008 was approximately £1.3 million.

Save for the information disclosed above there is no other information falling to be disclosed under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.