Haines swaps trains for planes

He was a rising star in the rail industry, but Andrew Haines has swapped trains for planes by becoming the first chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority.

24 September 2009
Andrew Haines
Andrew Haines
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When FirstGroup announced that Andrew Haines had left his job as head of its rail division last December it was a genuine shock. But the sense of surprise in the industry was, if anything, exceeded by Haines’s re-emergence as the Civil Aviation Authority’s first chief executive in August.

It was not as if Haines was short of options to continue his career on the railway, where he was regarded as among the next generation of industry leaders. During the six months gardening leave he...

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