IAG’s New CEO Faces Tough Challenges

IAG CEO Luis Gallego
Luis Gallego is an industry veteran who most recently was Iberia CEO.
Credit: IAG
Six months into the biggest crisis in the history of aviation is perhaps not the ideal time to take over as CEO of one of the industry’s biggest airline groups. But that is exactly what former Iberia CEO Luis Gallego did on Sept. 8, when he took the control of International Airlines Group, the...
Helen Massy-Beresford

Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.

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