BA’s daunting flight path to recovery | News

If you fancied a wager 12 months ago on who first would be out of IAG, the British Airways-led group of western European airlines, the smart money might have been on Alex Cruz, BA’s much-criticised chief executive, rather than his boss, Willie Walsh, another aviation executive with many detractors.

Mr Walsh, then 57, had made it plain that he would be hanging around until his 60th birthday before retiring gracefully.

It soon emerged that Mr Walsh’s departure was to be accelerated; it was then decided that he would leave by March 2020. And then, as the enormity of the pandemic began to break over western economies, it was decided that he would stay on through the initial phases of the crisis. In fact he did