Willie Walsh: Captain’s log, one year on...

The IAG boss Willie Walsh talks candidly about the airline’s future, Michael O’Leary, and retirement

Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, believes Brexit can be an opportunity for the group Picture: John Thys/Getty

If Willie Walsh feels any great sense of personal vindication about the healthy state of Aer Lingus one year after his company IAG bought the former national airline, then he keeps it to himself. He recently left it to his chief financial officer Enrique Dupuy to deliver the assessment that Aer Lingus is now IAG’s star performer.

“To be honest it is not often you hear Enrique say nice things about anything, and ...