Iata head to step down next year

The International Air Transport Association (Iata) announced last week that its director general and CEO, Tony Tyler, would retire in June 2016, after five years in the position.

“Tony Tyler is a very effective leader of Iata. I regret that he will be leaving the association, but respect his decision to retire next year after a long and successful career in aviation,” said Andrés Conesa, CEO of Aeroméxico and chairman of the Iata Board of Governors.

He said a successor would be announced at the next Iata Annual General Meeting in Dublin in June 2016.

Before joining Iata in 2011, Tyler was chief executive of Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong.

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