Alex Cruz, former British Airways CEO and aviation veteran can be the new CEO of Air India. The individual has been credited with rich experience of heading both full service and low-cost airlines. He served British Airlines as CEO for five years till 2020. The airline was severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and had to cut 13,000 jobs in October 2020. Alex Cruz stepped down as the CEO of airlines afterwords.
Tata Group took over the airline last week and is finalising a team of top-notch professionals to revive the airline. The reports also suggest that the new board of Air India is most likely to be led by the chairman of Tata Group, N Chandrasekaran himself. The company is currently running AI, AI Express, Vistara and AirAsia India.
The reports also suggest that Vistara will remain a separate entity till Singapore Airlines agrees to a merger with Air India. Tata Group has already hired some experts to have some visible improvements on the software side of the now-ageing fleet.