{"id":428640,"date":"2021-08-02T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428640"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:43:04","slug":"the-odds-are-stacked-against-jhunjhunwalas-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-odds-are-stacked-against-jhunjhunwalas-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"The odds are stacked against Jhunjhunwala\u2019s airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a wonder how perfectly successful and intelligent businessmen have suicidal tendencies. We are talking of those who get the 7-year itch, and launch mid-career into Bollywood and airlines. Almost two decades ago, Kishore Biyani, who knew nothing of Bollywood, invested quite a few crores in making flops and launching an actor called Diya Mirza. Fortunately, he came quickly to his senses. <\/p>\n<p>Then there are those who went starry-eyed after airlines. Look at Vijay Mallya. He sacrificed a perfectly good business in liquor to burn himself setting up a disastrous airline and pretending to be Richard Branson. The glitz of posing beside cool airhostesses and celebrity actors gets the better of these otherwise sensible investors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a wonder how perfectly successful and intelligent businessmen have suicidal tendencies. We are talking of those who get the 7-year itch, and launch mid-career into Bollywood and airlines. Almost two decades ago, Kishore Biyani, who knew nothing of Bollywood, invested quite a few crores in making flops and launching an actor called Diya Mirza. Fortunately, he came quickly to his senses. Then there are those who went starry-eyed after airlines. Look at Vijay Mallya. He sacrificed a perfectly good business in liquor to burn himself setting up a disastrous airline and pretending to be Richard Branson. The glitz of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428640","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}