One thing is certain: The part-Goan, part-Malayali group CEO of Air Asia is not your usual boardroom CEO, and he cultivates the maverick businessman image, buying race car teams and football clubs and taking off-beat bets with his mentor and now buddy Richard Branson of Virgin.
Kardassis, who quit the airline in 2013, will advise Goyal and senior management on cost-saving and productivity improvement
IndiGo and other airlines have said they are improving their staff training, looking at better ways of communication and customer awareness on operational matters.
A resurgent SpiceJet is spreading its wings and Vistara is set to challenge Jet on long-haul routes in the coming years.
The government proposes to divest 76 per cent of Air India, along with its shareholding in Air India Express and its ground-handling subsidiary, AISATS.
Aditya Ghosh, with no prior aviation background or MBA degree, managed not only to become the CEO of an airline but even piloted it to the top with almost half of the market.
The next step is the charter, which aims to safeguard consumer rights and address criticism about the government not doing enough for passengers.
If the government is asking a maximum price for Air India but asks to keep old personnel, it will not match.
The change in labelling, which is seen as a part of government's effort to push generic drugs, will come into effect from September 13.
Airline pares capacity on routes like Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Bengaluru on weekends, uses freed up slot at Mumbai to fly Amritsar, Patna, Varanasi
Charters, Udan flights choking Mumbai airport; MIAL may shift general aviation to Navi Mumbai once the airport is ready
The US drug regulator raised the issue of significant deviations from the current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) in three of DRRD's plants in a letter issued in November 2015
With sales of over Rs 12,240 crore in nine months of the current financial year, it is ahead of Rs 11,580 crore recorded by Lupin but behind Sun Pharma, which reported Rs 19,350 crore sales.
The multi-brand strategy could drive profitability to a 25% profit margin in the next five years from 17% now.
Because of lack of pilots, airlines have been forced to cancel their flights and rework their schedules, constraining cash flows and delaying vendor payments.
Only 11 antibiotics in clinical trials have received qualified infectious disease product status from the US FDA, of which five are Wockhardt's drugs.
Modi's 'UDAN' project faces fund crunch as too many airlines have come on board
The firm would require it to more than triple its CAGR of revenue to 18.5% for the next decade from 6%
Banks have Rs 10 trillion in stressed assets - Rs 7.8 trillion of bad loans and Rs 2.2 trillion of restructured ones.
And the way to a cure begins with conversation.
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