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JetBlue Airways named Ursula Hurley, its head of treasury and investor relations, as acting chief financial officer after the resignation of Steve Priest, who’s taking the same post at EBay Inc. Priest’s departure is effective from June 11, the New York-based airline said in a statement. He’ll start at EBay on June 21, according to the online retailer.
The departing executive has spearheaded major fleet decisions and cost-control efforts at the carrier since 2017. Priest joined JetBlue from IAG’s British Airways in 2015 as vice president of structural programs and became CFO in February 2017. “They were starting to reap the benefits of the multiyear structural cost program initiatives right before Covid hit, and should again in the recovery,†said Savanthi Syth, a Raymond James Financial analyst.