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
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
Jet will, however, continue to pay the sale-linked productivity bonus to them.
The face of MNC drug firms in India and champion of IPR protection, he oversaw the Swiss giant's India expansion, its forays into new therapies and setting up of its global service centre in Hyderabad
The government plans to rationalise trade margins for many other medical devices, besides stents and knee implants.
Delhi airport, the country's busiest, runs out of slots due to runway capacity constraints.
Bengaluru and Delhi airports had the fastest growth in passenger traffic in 2016 among global peers.
Gujarat has around 3,000 licensees for allopathic drug manufacturing, apart from around seven homeopathic licensees, 500 ayuvedic and 600-700 cosmetics licensees
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