Aug 5 (Reuters) – Air India on Wednesday appointed former Ethiopian Airlines chief Tewolde Gebremariam as its CEO, at a time when the Indian airline has been grappling with persistent losses and heightened regulatory scrutiny following a crash last year that killed 260 people.
Gebremariam succeeds New Zealander Campbell Wilson, a former Singapore Airlines executive appointed in 2022 to steer Air India’s turnaround after years of decline under state ownership.
Air India had said Wilson informed Chairman N Chandrasekaran in 2024 of his plans to step down this year.
The Tata Group-owned airline is facing heavy losses not only from heightened regulatory scrutiny after the 2025 crash but also due to operational disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict, which have driven up costs and compounded the effects of Pakistan’s airspace ban.
(Reporting by Mridula Kumar and Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Janane Venkatraman)
