Heathrow Airport is sounding retired candidates to instrumentality implicit from Lord Deighton, its long-serving chairman.
Sky News has learnt that Britain's biggest aviation hub is moving with the headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates to enlistee a successor to Lord Deighton, who took up the station successful 2016.
The hunt has emerged days aft Heathrow warned of a much challenging transatlantic question marketplace successful a motion of the ongoing fallout from President Trump's commercialized war.
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Under Lord Deighton, the erstwhile Treasury curate and Goldman Sachs executive, Heathrow has overhauled its ownership structure.
More recently, it has been dealing with the fallout from the electrical occurrence adjacent to the airdrome which saw Heathrow unopen for astir an full time successful March.
The institution said it would instrumentality the recommendations of a reappraisal conducted by erstwhile transport caput Ruth Kelly.
Succession readying for the airport's chairmanship was disclosed successful its yearly study but has not been reported.
In it, Lord Deighton wrote: "In airy of the caller changes to the HAHL [Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited] committee resulting from the completion of the stock merchantability connected 12 December 2024, and the comparatively caller appointments of the main enforcement and main fiscal officer, the nominations committee, comprising a fig of non-executive shareholder directors, has asked maine to widen my assignment for a constricted play to assistance guarantee a creaseless modulation whilst caller non-executive shareholder directors go acquainted with the concern and a caller seat is appointed.
"I person truthful agreed to widen my relation arsenic Chair for a constricted play to guarantee continuity and stableness connected the HAHL Board during this play of transition."
An announcement astir the chosen campaigner is expected aboriginal this year.