United CEO suffers heart attack, shares drop even lower

United CEO suffers heart attack, shares drop even lower, United Continental Holdings Inc's (UAL.N) new arch controlling has suffered a affection attack, a being accustomed with the amount said on Friday, almost a ages afterwards he took on the job of convalescent the airline's advantage and reputation.

The lath at United - the No. 2 U.S. carrier by accommodation - was abreast "promptly" afterwards Oscar Munoz was taken to hospital, the being said.

"There's no acumen for the lath to meet," the being said. "We're still acquisition advice about his medical action and prognosis."

United's antecedent arch controlling larboard while federal authorities were administering an analysis involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

United's shares bankrupt down 3.1 percent, at a one-week low of $55.97. They accept alone about 17 percent this year.

In a account on Friday, the airline said Munoz, 56, had been taken to hospital on Thursday. It gave no added details.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with his ancestors and we are apropos their privacy," it said, acquainted that the airline was operating normally.

United Continental has been bedeviled by complaints by barter and advisers in contempo years, abounding accompanying to its struggles to absorb the operations of the above United and Continental airlines.

Munoz has fabricated arrest those problems a top priority.

Shortly afterwards demography over, Munoz told advisers in a letter that he would accommodated with as abounding workers as accessible and "hear about operations anon from you".

Munoz had been appointed to authority a activity acme with abutment leaders on Thursday. Mike Klemm, arch of the bounded annex of the International Association of Machinists, said he was abreast midday Thursday that it had been postponed.

"They told us he had a claimed emergency," he said. "We ambition Mr. Munoz a accelerated accretion and attending advanced to accepting aback to plan with him.”

The Wall Street Journal, which bankrupt the story, appear that the lath was cat-and-mouse to apprehend from doctors and Munoz's ancestors about the severity of the affection advance afore chief if the arrangement of an acting CEO was necessary.

A backer for United beneath to animadversion on whether Munoz had suffered a affection attack, his action and whether the lath had been abreast that he had been taken to hospital.

United's abortion to promptly advertise Munoz's acceptance to a hospital or the acumen for it aloft apropos about whether the aggregation was advice abundant to investors.

“It is adverse but accurate that the bloom of the CEO is not a clandestine matter,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a accumulated babyminding able and assistant at the Yale School of Management.

“When anyone assumes this responsibility, they abandonment some of the accustomed rights of others," he said. "The CEO's bloom is financially actual advice and has a huge appulse on all key constituencies from investors, media, and advisers to customers, suppliers, and regulators.”

Many companies, including Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), accept grappled in contempo years with how to antithesis executives' admiration for aloofness with investors' charge to apperceive the accompaniment of their health.

The Wall Street Journal cited an "informed individual" as adage the affection advance may accept been balmy and that Munoz could be aback at plan in two weeks.

Regulation on the timing of such disclosures and how abundant detail is appropriate from companies and is not absolutely transparent.
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