Former Croatia Airlines boss becomes new Air Mauritius CEO

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The former CEO of Croatia Airlines and Bahrain’s Gulf Air, Krešimir Kučko, has been confirmed as the new CEO of Air Mauritius. He takes over the reigns at the company today. His task will be to restructure the carrier, which has been without a CEO since March 2020, and turn it into a viable business. Air Mauritius has a fleet of nine aircraft, including four Airbus A350-900s, two A330-900s and three ATR72-500s. Mr Kučko headed Croatia Airlines from September 2012 to October 2017. He then served as the CEO of Gulf Air from November 2017 until January 2021, after which he became the advisor to the Gulf Air Board of Directors.

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  1. Anonymous11:24

    "His task will be to restructure the carrier, which has been without a CEO since March 2020, and turn it into a viable business."

    Best of luck, I'm sure he'll be able to draw on his successful restructuring experiences from the past!

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    1. Anonymous23:11

      Yes, selling assets and hollowing the company out. Great job .

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    2. Anonymous23:11

      Krešo, jesi ti to sad pod Anonymous?

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  2. Anonymous12:02

    Koliko god da ga kudite ovaj covek zna lepo da se proda i da sebi namesti dobar posao. Mora da ipak nesto i vredi i da nesto zna !?!

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    1. Anonymous12:03

      tako i ja to vidim

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    2. Anonymous14:57

      A možda samo ima dobru priču koju proda onima koji vole da takve priče slušaju, umesto da gledaju rezultate ko je šta i u kakvim uslovima postigao. A nije isto kada se prihod uveća kao rezultat rada prodaje kapaciteta flote i kada se prodaju slotovi na jednom od najskupljih aerodroma na planeti

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    3. notLufthansa22:35

      While we wait for Pozdrav, may I just say, that this uhljeb is apparenty able for very deep oenetrations into the system ;)

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    4. More than honoured how you value my participation here 😃 And it goes both directions 😃 Concerning Kucko, in my opinion he is one level higher from ordinary Uhljeb. And he proves it by ability of very deep penetrations not only into the system but very high into the system. He was executing real boss Misetic orders while in OU, he was probably executing some sheikh's or whoever's orders while in Bahrain as well, which is likely to happen again in the Indian Ocean Paradise. And it's probably hell well paid, but it take both good stomach and "sole cheek" for such corporate hooking, so common today on all levels, and particularly on the highest

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    5. Pozdrav ,you are deluded. How can you say Kreshimir was better then Misetic? Under Misetic, OU added a lot of new routes, new Airbus fleet, new Dash 8's, OU joined Star Alliance, OU's technical department gained certification to work on foreign Aircraft. The onboard product was excellent.
      Under Kucko, most of the Assets were sold, routes cut and the onboard service reduced. I know very little about the running of an Airline but I know that Misetic was better for OU.
      Kucko doesn't even hold a University degree, and when he left the Amsterdam ticket office of OU, ticket sales increased there overnight!

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    6. First, if you disagree with me, it doesn't mean you have to insult me saying I am deluded. Now, facts : Majority of OU new services were opened while Katicic was CEO. Most important of those, like Manchester, Istanbul, Moscow, Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin were discontinued while Misetic was in charge. New leased Dash fleet joined OU during Misetic, despite ATR's were owned and in perfect shape, in order for Misetic to receive income through the double lease with the company tied to him. Misetic was the one who handed over entire croatian market to the Cartel, and cemented OU position as humiliated feeder, again for his personal benefits, the armchair in the Board of Directors of Star Alliance, or, in my words, Cartel Council. Corruption and nepotism during his time blossomed. He is or was close friend of Ivo Sanader, currently serving jail sentence. He made his nephew with 30 years of age and no experience Head of Training. For the maintenance part, I agree, they did get several certificates during his time, but thanks to competent and devoted people working there at the time, not Misetic himself. And for the end, I never said Kucko was better than Misetic. He couldn't be better, or worse, because he was just a pawn executing Godfather's orders. Misetic was, and still is the Boss, Godfather, and the gravedigger of Croatia Airlines and entire croatian civil aviation. If Croatia were country with the rule of law, Misetic should have been in prison long ago. Kucko is nothing but obedient aparatchik which I clearly stated before, what you obviously didn't understand.

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  3. Anonymous10:27

    Usrećili se ljudi

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  4. notLufthansa23:04

    Pozdrav is right. https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/zasto-croatia-airlines-najvazniju-odluku-kompanije-tretira-kao-kupnju-tri-probusene-avionske-gume-15280908

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  5. Anonymous23:27

    how about we look some facts here - he successfully restructured two airlines which got him a job at a third airline - let's be supportive of someone from the region making it globally. the cuts made at croatia airlines at the time were necessary for the airline to survive. he received nothing but praise for the work done at gulf air.

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  6. Anonymous12:59

    I don't know from who he got complaments from while work by Gulf Air

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