Mumbai: For years, Naresh Goyal, founder and chairman of Jet Airways (India) Ltd, would lament that none of his two children—a son and a daughter—were interested in joining his airline business. Now, hit by a series of crises, the Mumbai-based carrier has turned to his son, Nivaan Goyal, to take a bigger role in the company founded by his father a quarter of a century ago, according to several people—including former employees, industry peers and friends.
For instance, it was Nivaan Goyal, who led the Jet Airways team in its last two meetings with a group of lenders led by the State Bank of India (SBI) in Mumbai in the past few weeks.