{"id":659762,"date":"2026-04-01T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659762"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:20:15","slug":"indigo-names-veteran-william-walsh-ceo-after-flight-cancellations-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-names-veteran-william-walsh-ceo-after-flight-cancellations-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo names veteran William Walsh CEO after flight cancellations crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo on Tuesday named William Walsh, a former British Airways chief executive and the current head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as its chief executive officer \u2014 closing a leadership gap that opened three weeks ago when Pieter Elbers resigned in the aftermath of the worst operational crisis in the airline\u2019s history late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, who is expected to join no later than August 3 after his IATA tenure concludes on July 31, brings to IndiGo a career that spans the cockpit and the boardroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo on Tuesday named William Walsh, a former British Airways chief executive and the current head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as its chief executive officer \u2014 closing a leadership gap that opened three weeks ago when Pieter Elbers resigned in the aftermath of the worst operational crisis in the airline\u2019s history late last year. Walsh, who is expected to join no later than August 3 after his IATA tenure concludes on July 31, brings to IndiGo a career that spans the cockpit and the boardroom.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659762","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=659762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}