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Calio to retire from airlines group after 14 influential years

Paper strips? Floppy discs?If there are two things Nick Calio hoped would fly off into the sunset before he did, it was the little paper strips that air traffic controllers write flight information on and the tragically retro floppy discs they still use.Calio, 72, will deplane as CEO of Airlines for America (A4A) at year end. He has led the group, which represents 10 U.S. airlines, for 14 years. He is credited with building consensus and creating an influential voice for the airline industry that had lacked one because of disunity.In a statement announcing his retirement, A4A also cited Calio’s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that he helped save the industry by working with… Read More