“If you happen to hear the audio of a cockpit of any past air crash, you would know that the pilot never gives up till the very end. When a plane goes down we fight to the end to recover. It’s hard-coded in our DNA as pilots to not give up, and that’s what I am doing with my employer of 16 years that has been fantastic in all respects thus far,” said Nishanth Sequeira, a Gurugram-based senior commander at Jet Airways India Ltd, which halted operations a little over a week ago.
Sequeira, 43, has decided to sell his parents’ house in Mangaluru to keep his head above water for now, and remains hopeful that the airline will find a new buyer and take to the skies once again. “There is a bidding process on and I will wait till then to see how things work out. Of course, the window is narrowing for me because I have to manage my household and I have some big-ticket expenses lined up,” he said.
