{"id":612117,"date":"2023-10-25T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=612117"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:51:39","slug":"qatar-airways-ceo-al-baker-to-step-down-al-meer-to-take-over-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/qatar-airways-ceo-al-baker-to-step-down-al-meer-to-take-over-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways CEO Al Baker to step down, Al Meer to take over role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akbar Al Baker, one of the airline industry&#8217;s most outspoken leaders, is retiring as chief executive of Qatar Airways after almost three decades at the helm of the state-owned carrier, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Monday and a source.  <\/p>\n<p>Al Baker will be succeeded by Badr Mohammed Al Meer, currently chief operating officer of Hamad International Airport, the source familiar with the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>Al Baker&#8217;s resignation was announced to staff in an official circular, seen by Reuters, from Chairman Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi who paid tribute to his &#8220;27 years of remarkable service&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akbar Al Baker, one of the airline industry&#8217;s most outspoken leaders, is retiring as chief executive of Qatar Airways after almost three decades at the helm of the state-owned carrier, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Monday and a source. Al Baker will be succeeded by Badr Mohammed Al Meer, currently chief operating officer of Hamad International Airport, the source familiar with the matter said. Al Baker&#8217;s resignation was announced to staff in an official circular, seen by Reuters, from Chairman Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi who paid tribute to his &#8220;27 years of remarkable service&#8221;.<\/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-612117","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\/612117","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=612117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}