Pieter Elbers, KLM’s former chief and IndiGo’s CEO-designate, isn’t just an outperforming global airline leader. He has been a highly popular executive as well.
Such is his popularity that in April 2019, around the expiry of his first term when there were rumours that he would quit, about 25,000 employees–71% of the Dutch carrier’s workforce—signed a petition demanding that he stay on.