Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews Feb 23, 2013 Hi guys- its just a buzz- nothing confirmed, nothing reported. Expect to hear many more rumors in coming days! We hear Sanjay Agarwal of Kingfisher Airlines whose last day at KFA is Feb 28, will be Air Asia India's CEO. W ord has it that he is taking people from his old airline SpiceJet along with him. Many say it is interesting that AirAsia should pick up a legacy carrier's CEO that brings with him a five star cost structure. But then he was with SpiceJet too! Others say he knows the market and all its travails and how to survive to a point!  The fact is whoever the chief of this organisation is, will have to learn to get his hands dirty and multi-skill- the basis of AirAsia's success.

Neelam Mathews Oct 23, 2012 As Sanjay Agarwal, CEO of Kingfisher Airlines bravely battled his way through through a barage of tough questions yesterday from journalists and staff during the day,one couldn't but help admire his fortitude, given that his boss is in hiding. There are many in the industry who say this effort by the airline is primarily, to stop employees creating a rukkus outside the Formula One race track in Greater Noida as they have threatened to do, to embarrass the Force India team owner, Vijay Mallya. Or else, how come the management, that has been so cagey with the buck, suddenly comes up with an offer for one month's salary and upped it to three months within hours? Also, call it intuition, but I am seeing a chasm developing between the engineers on their decision to go back to work. Any guesses? Lets not forget, the airline needs engineers and pilots to run just 5-7 planes. And when Agarwal said at the press conference there were just 1500 people...