Malaysia Air's Mueller coy on next move

Malaysia Airlines' CE, Christoph Mueller, said he was confident the carrier was on the road to recovery, but was coy about his own next move ahead of his departure in September. Mueller, who revived Aer Lingus, said he wanted to stay in the industry but hinted he may have had enough of restructuring. "I've done these type of jobs now so many times, maybe I should do something else," he said. "I can go so far as saying it will be certainly aviation-related, but that's the only thing I can say. Stay tuned." Mueller declined to elaborate on the reasons for his departure which Malaysia Airlines has said was due to "changing personal circumstances". The German was hired last year to nurse the airline back to health after it was left reeling when two disasters in 2014 - the disappearance of flight MH370 and the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine - compounded losses. He launched a restructuring plan to cut a third of jobs, scrap some international routes, and renegotiate supplier deals, but his unexpected departure was announced in April and a successor has not been named. Mueller said Malaysia Airlines, which was taken private by Malaysian national investment firm Khazanah in 2014, was ahead of schedule in its plan to be sustainably profitable by 2018. As such, it is considering whether to expand its fleet by adding new aircraft, he said, adding a fleet plan was due to be published over the summer.<br/>