Emirates Chief Commercial Officer Resigns Abruptly

Would expect that the board/Clark decided on another candidate and will be announcing soon(either internal or external) and Antonori decided to pursue other opportunities as a result.

Is he joining Baltia Airlines?

do people really care???

What version of EK business class is that?

I sometimes end up wondering what hotel/airline/city is used in the headline picture, it’d be nice if every article had some footnote on what the picture is.

Boeing 777-200LR @Gabriel

Flew it a couple of weeks ago and it was an improvement on the older B777 product...!

@Deltahater

You must have, if you commented...

He's worked for thirty years. Maybe just decided he's had enough and retired.

President @ Air Canada

He will be CEO of an airline sooner. His Emirates resumè should take him higher places.

Both are different cases. Both got sacked by the owners. Muller got the sack because he was good in self promotion but a failure as a manager. That's why he also had to leave Malaysian earlier. Antinori was supposedly ousted because others wanted his job.

But, it is just a fairly tale that any expat will succeed Clark once he retires. Those times are over and there are highly qualified locals to take those jobs, I guess.

I am not sure if being the CEO of AF/KLM is such an amazing job, considering all the issues you have to solve with the French unions while also maintaining a profit.

We would expect higher management to resign. Now EK will have to face the costs of operating 140 380's on routes that could be operated by 777's

They are purging all of the EVP+ expats and replacing with locals. This is just the beginning.

Emirates will work like nothing has happened. The company is too big and the staff knows their role and positions in any situation. It’s another head roll that’s all

According to the French press M Antinori,Emirates number 2 had turned down in 2016 the offer of running Air France but he did accept it and was a candidate in 2017 .
So the fact that he was already looking here and there at other opportunities 2 years ago may show he wanted to do something else or live somewhere else with his family.
(Go back to France ?)

Lucky, this is the real world.
Look for him at another airline soon.
Besides, EK is loosing is fluff. And the oil is running dry. Who cares to watch their dead-heading pilots sitting in First Class seats.
You will be a grandfather before all the 777's are converted with the new seats.

From the inside....Antinori pushed and his team currently being reviewed with more heads to roll.
It is somewhat surprising being that there is a certain level of protectionism at EK. Bad policy and strategy is not necessarily an issue if you’re on the “correct” side of the top level management which is evident right across the business.
Antinori however is responsible for decimating the global commercial structure, most recently the Australian structure along with the local DVP, neither of them having a clue of what is truly happening in their markets and have left the business in a wreck in the Australian market in particular.
All that aside, the CCO is a toothless tiger. Revenue Optimsation (yield management) regrettably have total control over commercial strategy.
The business will continue to suffer until that power shifts, which is highly unlikely in the immediate future.