{"id":377968,"date":"2020-10-13T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T03:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377968"},"modified":"2020-10-13T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:03:49","slug":"british-airways-chief-executive-alex-cruz-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-chief-executive-alex-cruz-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways, slammed by the coronavirus pandemic, said Monday that CEO Alex Cruz is stepping down &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221; but gave no reason for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Parent group IAG added in a statement that Cruz, who has been BA chief executive for four and half years, will be replaced by its Aer Lingus boss Sean Doyle but will remain non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>New IAG chief executive Luis Gallego, who took the reins from Willie Walsh just last month, said the reshuffle was aimed at emerging stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic, which has decimated demand for air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways, slammed by the coronavirus pandemic, said Monday that CEO Alex Cruz is stepping down &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221; but gave no reason for his departure. Parent group IAG added in a statement that Cruz, who has been BA chief executive for four and half years, will be replaced by its Aer Lingus boss Sean Doyle but will remain non-executive chairman. New IAG chief executive Luis Gallego, who took the reins from Willie Walsh just last month, said the reshuffle was aimed at emerging stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic, which has decimated demand for air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}