The former chairman of the Mobile Airport Authority will serve the next six years as the chairman emeritus with the board, according to a news release the agency sent out Wednesday clarifying the changes.

The release from the Mobile Airport Authority also says that Elliot Maisel — who sent the past eight years as the board’s chairman and oversaw the evolution of commercial aviation in Mobile — did not resign from his post as chairman, as originally reported by the MAA on Monday. Maisel, instead, “has chosen to move into the role” of chairman emeritus.