American Airlines Shuffles Top Executives as Damage Control Begins
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Offering up a sacrificial lamb to investors won't do much to solve American Airlines' operational issues, which are multifaceted in nature. Perhaps its new executive structure, though, will let it solve its woes more effectively than before. The rest of the U.S. aviation sector is watching.
On the heels of the announcement from American Airlines that its leadership expects its Boeing 737 Max aircraft to return to service in mid-January 2020, the airline will also shuffle a variety of top executives as a sign to Wall Street that it's sorting out its myriad operational issues.
Kerry Philipovitch, American Airlines' senior vice president of customer experience, will retire from the company at the end of the year. The company will also realign its commercial operations geared around four pillars: operations, network, revenue, and customers.
David Seymour will become senior vice president of operations, Vasu Raja has been named se
