IATA governors to recommend extension of de Juniac’s tenure as DG

IATA’s board of governors is to recommend an extension to Alexandre de Juniac’s term as CE and DG of the airline association. The former Air France-KLM group CE succeeded Tony Tyler at the helm of IATA in 2016. His current term runs until Aug 2020. The announcement was disclosed in a wider release about changes to its strategic leadership team and corporate structure, which it says are designed to focus on its core competencies of standard-setting and adoption, advocacy, and services and products. As part of those changes, its current senior VP for Financial and Distribution services, Aleks Popovich, is to lead a newly formed Customer and Business services division. This unit will manage operations of IATA’s industry settlement systems, central sales and marketing, and its customer service. <br/>