{"id":454722,"date":"2021-12-08T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454722"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:49:54","slug":"american-airlines-names-robert-isom-to-replace-retiring-ceo-doug-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/american-airlines-names-robert-isom-to-replace-retiring-ceo-doug-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines names Robert Isom to replace retiring CEO Doug Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines Group Inc. named President Robert Isom to replace Doug Parker as chief executive officer early next year, a sign of stability after the Covid-19 pandemic ignited a chaotic period for the industry. <\/p>\n<p>Parker, who has led the airline since 2013, will step down as CEO on March 31 but stay on as chairman, according to a statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Isom, 58, has been the heir apparent since he was appointed president in mid-2016 and his selection signals that a steady hand is intended for the airline\u2019s first leadership transition in eight years. He and Parker have worked together for more than two decades, joining American after engineering the $11 billion merger that combined the carrier with US Airways Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines Group Inc. named President Robert Isom to replace Doug Parker as chief executive officer early next year, a sign of stability after the Covid-19 pandemic ignited a chaotic period for the industry. Parker, who has led the airline since 2013, will step down as CEO on March 31 but stay on as chairman, according to a statement Tuesday. Isom, 58, has been the heir apparent since he was appointed president in mid-2016 and his selection signals that a steady hand is intended for the airline\u2019s first leadership transition in eight years. He and Parker have worked together for [&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-454722","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\/454722","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=454722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}