Air India's new Ethiopian CEO faces financial and safety turbulence
Air India has appointed a new chief executive as the airline grapples with mounting challenges, including heavy financial losses and the fallout from last year's crash that killed 260 people.
Aviation experts told the BBC that Gebremariam may be the leader Air India needs, pointing to two defining crises he steered Ethiopian Airlines through: the 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 157 people and the Covid pandemic, when the airline stayed profitable by expanding its cargo business as passenger revenues collapsed.
The airline operates a fleet of 198 aircraft, flying nearly 5,000 weekly flights to 91 destinations in India and abroad, according to the Air India website.
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