FlyerTalk Forums - WestJet CEO Ed Sims pushing 'through the grind' of his honeymoon phase

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Earlier this year, WestJet welcomed new CEO Ed Sims to its team. Sims is a veteran in the airline industry, with experience in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. He arrived to Canada at a time he deems particularly interesting.

“The world is getting this growth of populism that is rejecting dynasties, it’s rejecting heritage and it’s causing a lot of rapid change. I was fascinated by the opportunity to not just work in a country of 35 million people, but one with a neighbour of 300 mill to the south – to be within North America at such a time of dramatic change (in the U.S.,) but to not be subject to that change.”