Amid the company's ongoing struggle to return its 737 Max fleet to the skies,
Senior Vice President of Communications
Toulouse, 61, leaves at a time when
Toulouse rose to her post on an interim basis last year and the job became permanent a month before the Max fleet was grounded worldwide in March. She reported directly to President and CEO
"This past year has been all-consuming and profoundly difficult for all of us at
Toulouse will be the second high-ranking female executive to leave the company since the planes were pulled from service. She said the lessons learned from the crashes and getting the plane back in the air will make
"As we move into that next phase, I can best serve the company by turning over the role to someone with a fresh perspective," she said.
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