Airline industry will never be the same again - former IAG CEO Walsh

FILE PHOTO: Willie Walsh Chief Executive of International Airlines Group (IAG) attends the Europe Aviation Summit in Brussels, Belgium March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

LONDON (Reuters) - The airline industry is never going to get back to the way it was before the coronavirus pandemic, warned the former chief executive of British Airways-owner IAG on Tuesday.

"It's never going to get back, absolutely no doubt about that, it's never going to get back to the way it was," Willie Walsh, who retired as IAG CEO on Sept. 8, said in an online interview with Eurocontrol.