NEW DELHI: Breaking the glass ceiling of Indian aviation, a woman has become the CEO of an Indian carrier for the first time, with the government appointing Harpreet A De Singh to the top position for Air India\u2019s (AI) regional subsidiary Alliance Air. Singh is currently AI\u2019s executive director (flight safety). Captain Nivedita Bhasin, one of AI\u2019s most senior commanders currently flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner, will be the new ED (flight safety) in place of Singh.
\nAI CMD Rajiv Bansal issued an order on Friday, saying Singh \u201cwill hold the charge of Alliance Air CEO post till further orders.\u201d Captain Nivedita Bhasin has also been asked to head several other departments, given her experience. Alliance Air is not being sold off with the Air India-AI Express-AISATS combine and will remain a PSU for now. AI\u2019s old Boeing 747s will be transferred to Alliance Air, which currently has a fleet of turboprops, if the Maharaja gets a buyer and is privatised.
\nHarpreet Singh was the first woman pilot to be selected by Air India in 1988. However, she could not fly due to health reasons and has been very active in the area of flight safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Breaking the glass ceiling of Indian aviation, a woman has become the CEO of an Indian carrier for the first time, with the government appointing Harpreet A De Singh to the top position for Air India\u2019s (AI) regional subsidiary Alliance Air. Singh is currently AI\u2019s executive director (flight safety). Captain Nivedita Bhasin, one of AI\u2019s most senior commanders currently flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner, will be the new ED (flight safety) in place of Singh. AI CMD Rajiv Bansal issued an order on Friday, saying Singh \u201cwill hold the charge of Alliance Air CEO post till further orders.\u201d Captain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}