Air Canada Heads Into Winter Between CEOs and With Plenty to Prove
Air Canada reports Q2 results on Wednesday in what will be outgoing CEO Michael Rousseau's final earnings presentation before his August 31 retirement, leaving the airline to enter its toughest winter trading season without a permanent CEO until successor Anko van der Werff arrives from SAS in January. The market is braced for a sharp profit decline: Air Canada guided Q2 adjusted earnings to C$575–725 million (versus C$909 million a year earlier) and withdrew its full-year outlook, citing fuel volatility. Analysts will scrutinize fuel recapture rate, the sluggish U.S. transborder market recovery, World Cup demand, the leadership vacuum, and whether management restores full-year guidance and…