Fastjet CEO Quits as Problems Mount
Photo Credit: Passengers disembark a Fastjet flight. The company has switched from flying Airbus A319 aircraft to a fleet of smaller Embraer ERJ145s. Fastjet
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Given the constant drip of bad news coming out of Fastjet since it launched in 2012, it's amazing that the airline is still flying.
Money-losing African Airline Fastjet is on the hunt for a new CEO after incumbent Nico Bezuidenhout quit to rejoin his old company.
The departure comes less than a week after the carrier announced a full-year loss of $65 million, having delayed the publication of its results because of an ongoing “audit process.”
Bezuidenhout is going back to head up Mango at the end of September, the low-cost subsidiary of South African Airways that he left to join Fastjet in June 2016.
The current deputy CEO Mark Hurst will take over from Bezuidenhout on an interim basis while the company searches for a permanent successor. Hurst is CEO of Fastjet’s majority shareholder Solenta Aviatio
