{"id":49000,"date":"2017-01-20T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=49000"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:09:16","slug":"united-airlines-chief-commercial-officer-julie-haywood-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/united-airlines-chief-commercial-officer-julie-haywood-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Exec hired as “key leader” leaves United"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Shen Lu<\/b> <\/p>\n

United Continental Holdings Inc.\u2019s chief commercial officer, Julia Haywood, has stepped down after less than six months on the job, the airline confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n

Haywood\u2019s responsibilities included sales, network planning, pricing and revenue management.<\/p>\n

Haywood, a former Boston Consulting Group partner, was hired on August 18<\/a>, along with Andrew Levy, chief financial officer, as a \u201ckey leader\u201d of United\u2019s new team under CEO Oscar Munoz.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, Munoz hired Scott Kirby<\/a> — former president of American Airlines Inc. — as United\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith United’s strategy now firmly in place, Julia has decided to return to BCG,\u201d United spokesperson Charles Hobart said.<\/p>\n

“I, along with Oscar and the entire senior leadership team, appreciate the contributions Julia has made during this transformative period for our airline, and we wish her the very best,” Kirby said in a statement. “We will continue to focus on building out the commercial team to achieve our goal of becoming the world’s best airline.”<\/p>\n

The departure does not appear to be part of United\u2019s plan, announced this week, to trim management employees as an ongoing effort to improve profitability, said Chris Higgins, analyst at Morningstar Inc.<\/p>\n

\"United's
United’s passenger unit revenue, a key metric to determine the efficiency of an airline, has been steadily improving in 2016. (Shen Lu\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The No.3 U.S. airline by passenger traffic has long faced pressure from other legacy airlines with lower cost structures. Trade publication Air Weekly ranked the carrier the least profitable U.S.-based carrier in a study published on Jan.9.<\/p>\n

United has said its focus in 2017 is to improve its margins and that the airline is on track to boost profit by $4.8 billion by 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have great confidence we will achieve our cost efficiency targets outlined at our investor day as we look to offset rising fuel and labor costs,\u201d Levy said in the company\u2019s earnings press release.<\/p>\n

United on Tuesday reported<\/a> a better-than-expected 1.6 percent decline in its fourth-quarter passenger unit revenue, a key metric to determine the efficiency of an airline, as its net income slipped 52 percent.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: United Airlines\u00a0experienced major leadership shake-ups after its merger with Continental Airlines in 2010.(Courtesy of United)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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