{"id":4295,"date":"2019-04-15T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:23:09","slug":"british-airways-cfo-to-take-over-as-iag-finance-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"British Airways CFO to Take Over as IAG Finance Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BRITISH-AIRWAYS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BRITISH-AIRWAYS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BRITISH-AIRWAYS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BRITISH-AIRWAYS-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption> The G-EUPH British Airways Airbus A319-131 makes its final approach for  landing at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, France, March 20, 2019.  REUTERS\/Regis Duvignau\/Files <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reuters)\n &#8211; IAG said on Monday British Airways&#8217; finance chief Steve Gunning will \nreplace company veteran and chief financial officer Enrique Dupuy de \nL\u00f4me, who steps down after more than eight years in the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunning,\n who joined British Airways in 1998 and has been its CFO since January \n2016, will take over from de L\u00f4me at IAG&#8217;s annual general meeting in \nJune, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After\n eight years as CFO of IAG and prior to that, 20 years as CFO of Iberia,\n I believe now is the right time for me to leave IAG,&#8221; de L\u00f4me said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IAG did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reason for de Lome&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunning takes the role as the airline industry braces for a potential hit from Britain&#8217;s impending exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of IAG jumped to session highs after the announcement and were last up 1.1 percent at 548.4 pence on London&#8217;s main index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi and Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard Orr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAG said on Monday British Airways&#8217; finance chief Steve Gunning will replace company veteran and chief financial officer Enrique Dupuy de L\u00f4me, who steps down after more than eight years in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[420,625,160,2979,2432,624,4209,1216,4213,4211,1180,2761,4210,620,623,1681,4212,412,1288,3061,1921],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-airline","tag-airways","tag-aviation","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-cfo","tag-chief","tag-dupuy","tag-enrique","tag-european","tag-finance","tag-gunning","tag-iag","tag-iberia","tag-industry","tag-lome","tag-news","tag-reuters","tag-steve","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}