American air’s alliance boss exits after Latam loss to Delta

American Airlines Group’s VP overseeing alliances is stepping down, a month after the carrier lost a pending partnership expansion in Latin America to Delta Air Lines. Joe Mohan will move to an advisory role at the carrier after this week, “offering assistance until early next year,” according to a memo. The change comes 2 weeks after American announced a reshuffling of executive duties in which Mohan was to begin reporting to Vasu Raja, who was promoted to senior VP of network strategy at American. An effort by American and Latam to jointly market and operate flights between the US and 6 South American countries foundered in May when Chile’s Supreme Court hobbled the venture on antitrust grounds. <br/>