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Trade partnerships 'core and foundation' to British Airways recovery

Business
James Chapple
26 April 2021

British Airways’ head of global sales Mark Muren has pledged to build new, stronger relationships with the trade as the airline – and travel – seeks to recover and emerge from the Covid crisis.

Muren said BA was aware it had under-invested in trade partnerships

Muren joined BA from United in November 2019, taking over responsibility for all the carrier’s indirect sales channels – only for the sector to be plunged into the greatest crisis in its history a matter of months later.


Speaking on Monday (26 April), Muren revealed that despite BA having reduced the size of its sales team by around a third due to the Covid crisis, he was confident the airline would emerge with a "leaner and better" sales team, backed by a senior leadership team sharing a collective sales vision and culture.