Alitalia taps turnaround expert as CEO

MILAN: Loss-making Italian airline Alitalia said yesterday that it had appointed aviation industry turnaround expert Cramer Ball as its new chief executive.

Ball, who joins from India’s Jet Airways, is expected to take up his new role in early March, succeeding Silvano Cassano who resigned in September after less than a year in the job for what the company said were personal reasons.

Ball, 48, has spent more than 20 years in the industry.