A search is on to fill the top job in global aviation after airline body International Air Transport Association announced CEO and director general Tony Tyler will step down next year.
Tyler has been head of IATA since 2011 and will resign following the next Annual General Meeting of IATA in Dublin in June 2016.
"Tony Tyler is a very effective leader of IATA, who is achieving much in his role as Director General and CEO. I regret that he will be leaving the association, but respect his decision to retire next year after a long and successful career in aviation," said Andrés Conesa, chairman of the IATA Board of Governors, and Aeromexico CEO.
Coseca said an executive search is now underway with the successor due to be formally announced in Dublin next year.
"After five years as director general and CEO of IATA, I believe it will be time for me to retire and leave the organisation. It is a great privilege and responsibility to lead IATA, and I am proud of what the IATA team is achieving during my term of office," Tyler said.
Tyler, a former CEO of Cathay Pacific, will continue to lead IATA until June 2016.
