Singapore Airlines chief executive Goh Choon Phong is in for another tough year, amid the pandemic and the grounding of the carrier’s multi-hub strategy. Of the SIA Group’s 185 aircraft, only 64 passenger jets and seven freighters were in service...
Singapore Airlines chief executive Goh Choon Phong is in for another tough year, amid the pandemic and the grounding of the carrier’s multi-hub strategy. Of the SIA Group’s 185 aircraft, only 64 passenger jets and seven freighters were in service...
Planning to launch transatlantic flights during what, at best, will be a pandemic recovery phase may seem foolhardy. But under the leadership of Robin Hayes, JetBlue Airways is planning to enter a market that has been fiercely defended by network...
Gulf carrier Etihad Airways was just starting to emerge from its major restructuring under chief executive Tony Douglas when the global pandemic took hold. While this left the carrier in better shape to cope with the challenges the pandemic brought,...
For all its challenges, the year ahead marks one of opportunity for Korean Air and its chief executive Walter Cho. After announcing a W1.8 trillion ($1.62 billion) takeover bid for embattled rival Asiana Airlines last November, it is now working...
Of all the moments to take control of an airline group, March 2020 perhaps ranks as one of the least attractive in history. But that was the reality facing LATAM Airlines Group chief executive Roberto Alvo, who assumed the top...
Succeeding the founding and high-profile chief executive of European airline group IAG would be a tough assignment under normal circumstances. For the former Iberia chief executive Luis Gallego, who succeeded Willie Walsh in the role last September, these are anything...
As if navigating a hub airline with little origin and destination traffic out of the crisis was not challenging enough, Qatar Airways and its chief executive Akbar Al Baker also have a string of minority stakes in other carriers to...
One solution to the challenges of running an airline during a pandemic that has decimated your network is to pivot the business towards non-aviation activities, and that is the tack being taken by AirAsia Group under the guidance of chief...
Despite being the newest chief executive among those leading the US majors, Scott Kirby is showing a willingness to take leadership positions on some of the industry’s biggest issues. Notably, he has earmarked sustainability as “the new standard in flight”...
Air Canada’s Michael Rousseau takes the helm of the largest Canadian airline at a time when it faces multiple crises, the biggest of which is not of its own making. Among the many issues Rousseau will need to deal with,...