{"id":659726,"date":"2026-04-01T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659726"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:06:18","slug":"indigo-taps-former-british-airways-chief-william-walsh-%e2%81%a0as-ceo-days-after-pieter-elbers-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-taps-former-british-airways-chief-william-walsh-%e2%81%a0as-ceo-days-after-pieter-elbers-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo taps \u200bformer British \u200bAirways \u200bchief William \u200cWalsh \u2060as \u200b\u200bCEO, days after Pieter Elbers&#8217; exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has named William Walsh, the current director general of the International Air Transport Association and former chief of the British Airways, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>William Walsh&#8217;s tenure as head of the global airline industry body comes to a close on July 31, and he is expected to join IndiGo no later than August 3, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has named William Walsh, the current director general of the International Air Transport Association and former chief of the British Airways, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on Tuesday, March 31. William Walsh&#8217;s tenure as head of the global airline industry body comes to a close on July 31, and he is expected to join IndiGo no later than August 3, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659726","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}