Flair Airlines chief executive Stephen Jones will be retiring this summer after more than three-and-a-half years at the helm of the discount carrier.
It's been one month since Lynx Air shut down service in Canada , leaving Flair Airlines as the last ultra-low-cost carrier in the country. But amid a slew of reputational and financial uncertainty that has dogged the airline in just the past year, Canadians who may be looking to book spring or summer travel may be pressing pause on whether to book with the carrier.
Flair said Tuesday a recruitment process for a replacement is underway and that chief operating officer Maciej Wilk was named interim CEO until the board selects a successor. Jones is set to step down on June 28, he said. In a phone interview from Toronto, Jones said he felt ready to retire and faced “no pressure to move on.”“I’m just at an age and stage in my life that I want to achieve some other goals,” said Jones, who turns 63 in a couple of weeks.
“The business is in good shape and I assured them that it’s actually in the best shape that I’ve ever seen it.”Jones also renewed his repeated demands over the past few years for an industry overhaul. He called on the government to enable more Canadians to fly by tamping down costs for airlines through reforms that would open the gate to lower airport fees and a higher ownership threshold for foreign players.
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