AF-KLM's Alexandre de Juinac to be new director general of IATA

So Alexandre de Juniac, chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM, is to leave the high-cost, union-active carrier for the more demure job of leading IATA.

Mr de Juniac has led AF-KLM for three years ? during which the carrier has had to restructure its short haul operations, fight with labour (quite literally) and has struggle with losses in cargo, leading to a diminished freighter fleet.

The airline has now, after four years of losses, posted an operating profit, mostly on the back ...