Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA’s passenger count jumped 14 percent to 100.7 million last year, propelling it past Air France-KLM Group by that measure for the first time. Customer numbers were boosted by a full year of figures from Ireland’s Aer Lingus, which IAG purchased in 2015, together with gains at Spanish arm Iberia and the Vueling discount …

  AP Frontier Airlines says its chief operating officer (COO) left the company, the second high-level departure in less than a month at the budget airline. A Frontier spokesman confirmed that Bill Meehan stepped down last week and was replaced temporarily by Jim Nides, the company’s vice president of flight operations. Meehan joined Frontier in 2014 after being CEO of …

  DOHA / Reuters Saudi Arabia appointed a new chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) by royal decree in a management shake-up. Ghassan bin Abdulrahman Al Shabal was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned airline, said Saudi state news agency (SPA). Shabal will replace Sulaiman Al Hamdan, according to the airline’s website. SPA said representatives of …