Jet Airways appoints 4 new senior executives

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Jet Airways on Monday introduced that it has appointed 4 new senior executives days after aviation regulator DGCA granted a revalidated Air Operator Certificate, permitting the airline to renew industrial flight operations.

The AOC was granted to the airline on May 20.

The airline has appointed Prabh Sharan Singh as chief digital officer, H R Jagannath as vice chairman of engineering, Mark Turner as vice chairman of inflight product and providers and Vishesh Khanna as vice chairman of gross sales, distribution and buyer engagement, it mentioned within the assertion The airline mentioned Singh will take cost on June 1, Jagannath has taken cost on Monday, Turner will take cost on June 15 and Khanna will be part of the airline a while in July.

Singh is at the moment a senior vice chairman at WNS Global Services.

“His (Singh) rich experience spanning nearly 20 years includes stints at Etihad Airways, where he worked as strategy and portfolio lead within the carrier’s digital technology and innovation division, and at Kingfisher Airlines, where he worked as general manager – commercial alliances,” the airline talked about.

Jagannath has over 40 years of aviation expertise and he most just lately served as chief govt officer of Air India Engineering Services, it famous.

Turner, who additionally has greater than 40 years of aviation expertise, led Jet Airways’ inflight providers crew between 2008 and 2011 and has held senior administration positions at Gulf Air, Emirates, Qatar Airways and Fiji Airways, it mentioned.

Khanna joins the airline from VFS Global Ltd, the place he at the moment serves as Business Head e-Visa, it talked about.

“He (Khanna) has nearly 30 years of experience in the aviation and travel sectors across B2C (business-to-customer) and B2B (business-to-business) sales, having held executive positions at various airlines in the past,” it famous.

Financial misery compelled Jet Airways, which flew for greater than 20 years, to droop operations on April 17, 2019 and a consortium of lenders, led by State Bank of India (SBI), filed an insolvency petition in June 2019 to recuperate excellent dues value over Rs 8,000 crore.

In October 2020, the airline’s Committee of Creditors (CoC) authorized the decision plan submitted by the consortium of the UK’s Kalrock Capital and the UAE-based entrepreneur Murari Lal Jalan. In June 2021, the decision plan was authorized by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).