{"id":378699,"date":"2020-10-16T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378699"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:58:14","slug":"virgin-australia-picks-new-ceo-as-new-owner-bain-pushes-hybrid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-australia-picks-new-ceo-as-new-owner-bain-pushes-hybrid-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia picks new CEO as new owner Bain pushes &#8216;hybrid&#8217; strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd CEO Paul Scurrah will be replaced within weeks by Jayne Hrdlicka, the former head of Qantas&#8217; budget offshoot Jetstar, as new owner Bain looks to draw in more travellers with a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; strategy. <\/p>\n<p>The management change at Virgin, to be effective soon after its sale to Bain Capital is completed next month, will set the stage for a battle with unions, who support Scurrah&#8217;s vision for the full-service carrier and are concerned it will be taken downmarket under the U.S. private equity group&#8217;s ownership. <\/p>\n<p>Scurrah had clashed with Bain over wanting to maintain a more premium offering than desired by the U.S. firm, two people with knowledge of the matter said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd CEO Paul Scurrah will be replaced within weeks by Jayne Hrdlicka, the former head of Qantas&#8217; budget offshoot Jetstar, as new owner Bain looks to draw in more travellers with a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; strategy. The management change at Virgin, to be effective soon after its sale to Bain Capital is completed next month, will set the stage for a battle with unions, who support Scurrah&#8217;s vision for the full-service carrier and are concerned it will be taken downmarket under the U.S. private equity group&#8217;s ownership. Scurrah had clashed with Bain over wanting to maintain [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378699","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=378699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}