Tyler To Retire As IATA DG/CEO In June 2016

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 (Bernama) -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s Director-General (DG) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tony Tyler, will retire in June 2016 after serving five years. “After five years as DG and CEO of IATA, I believe it will be time for me to retire and leave the organisation," he said in a statement Saturday. Before joining IATA in 2011, Tyler was Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong, in which he served on the IATA Board of Governors including as its Chairman from June 2009 to June 2010. IATA is now searching for a successor to be appointed at the next IATA annual general meeting in Dublin in June 2016. -- BERNAMA