Hong Kong, Dec. 13 -- Willie Walsh, 59, gave the industry a clear indication of his state of mind when it came to governments and their treatment of aviation in a speech at the International Air Transport Association's virtual AGM, held in Amsterdam last month.
Accepting the position of the eighth leader of the airline lobby group and successor to Alexandre de Juniac, Walsh said: "I too am a businessman. I understand how governments operate, but I am even more unhappy and more critical of how they get things done, or more importantly, in many cases how they have failed to get them done."
In another section of his speech, Walsh said: "I have spent more than 40 years in this business. About half of them were at the pointy end as a pilot and...