Gail Alexan­der

An­oth­er man­ag­er of Caribbean Air­lines, Steve Aceve­do, has re­signed.

He was CAL’s Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer (COO).

CAL con­firmed the de­par­ture ear­li­er in the week but gave no de­tails be­yond that Aceve­do had re­signed and Yan­nis Gounaris had al­so pre­vi­ous­ly re­signed.

Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed last month that Gounaris re­signed from the post of CAL’s Chief Com­mer­cial Of­fi­cer. He had been based in the US. Gounaris had cit­ed dis­agree­ment with a top CAL man­ag­er.

Aceve­do, who sub­se­quent­ly re­signed, is re­port­ed to have left on No­vem­ber 19. He had been COO since around 2018.

Dur­ing CAL’s move to re­struc­ture and down­size staff fol­low­ing heavy fi­nan­cial prob­lems post-lock­down since March 2020, there had been con­cerns in some sec­tors of CAL about “top-heavy man­age­ment.”

The air­line has moved to stream­line op­er­a­tions, in­clud­ing routes and air­craft as­sets.

Mean­while, CAL’s move to re­trench about 45 per cent of its 252 pi­lots is said to be head­ed for the In­dus­tri­al Court on cer­tain is­sues.

The pi­lots’ is­sues had been tak­en to the Labour Min­istry but were un­re­solved and con­se­quent­ly some is­sues were ex­pect­ed to be­come court mat­ters.