Interview: Dnata Travel has 'shifted focus from size to profitability'
Incoming UK and Europe chief executive Ailsa Pollard speaks to Lucy Huxley ahead of speaking at Abta’s Travel Convention
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Incoming UK and Europe chief executive Ailsa Pollard speaks to Lucy Huxley ahead of speaking at Abta’s Travel Convention
Dnata Travel Group (UK & Europe) and appointed Ailsa Pollard as Chief Executive Officer, who will start in her new role on November 1, 2021.
Ailsa Pollard has been appointed as chief executive of dnata Travel Group in the UK and across Europe. She will start in her new role in November.
Holiday hopes have been reignited with a major traffic light shake-up that saw seven countries upgraded to the green list and four removed from the dreaded red list.
John Bevan, divisional senior vice-president for Gold Medal parent dnata Travel Group, said the decision to move the UAE to amber was good news not just for the destination but for others now accessible via hub airports. “I know our airline partners who fly to Dubai, and our hotel suppliers there, have made every effort to ensure traveller wellbeing and are desperate to welcome their British customers back, as are all of the other tourist-related businesses on the ground – so it’s great news for them as well,” he said. “This gives us the opportunity to do what we’ve been denied fo...