“It was today, one year ago, I operated my last flight for Jet Airways,” wrote Tapesh Kumar in a Facebook post on April 9.
“Little did I know that it would be the last time I’d be wearing this uniform officially. Little did I know that it would be the last time I was stepping into a 737 cockpit,” Kumar, a pilot with Jet Airways, wrote.
Exactly a year back, Kumar along with 25,000 other employees of Jet Airways were hopeful that the airline’s troubles with a debt of over Rs 14,000 crore would be over once the founder Naresh Goyal was asked to exit the company. The airline was taken over by the lenders led by the State Bank of India and a global hunt ensued to find a new owner for one of India’s iconic airline brands
