BTN's 2015 25 Most InfluentialBTN’s annual list includes executives from three airlines with contrarian models—Lufthansa, Etihad and Spirit—that are forcing legacy carriers to pay attention. Delta’s Dave Holtz also makes the list representing a large carrier that leads the industry in performance and American’s Maya Leibman for showing the rest of the industry how mergers are done. BTN also named four innovative travel managers, six tech pros, five growing suppliers, four civil servants and one bank CEO who threw the world for a loop ... Keep Reading
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