{"id":472260,"date":"2022-03-02T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472260"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:33:34","slug":"ilker-ayci-turns-down-air-india-ceo-role-2-weeks-after-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ilker-ayci-turns-down-air-india-ceo-role-2-weeks-after-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilker Ayci turns down Air India CEO role 2 weeks after appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ilker Ayci has turned down the Tata Group&#8217;s offer to be Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Air India, news agency PTI said quoting aviation industry sources. On February 14, Tata Sons had said Ayci, former chairman of Turkish Airlines, would take charge as CEO and MD of the debt-laden airline bought out by the Tatas in a $2.4 billion equity and debt deal.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for India&#8217;s Tata, which recently took over debt-laden Air India in a $2.4 billion equity and debt deal, confirmed the development to Reuters without sharing further details.<\/p>\n<p>Ayci declining the Tata&#8217;s offer comes after Swadeshi Jagran Manch &#8211; an outfit linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh &#8211; called on the government to block the appointment of the hugely experienced Turkish aviation expert over &#8216;national security concerns&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilker Ayci has turned down the Tata Group&#8217;s offer to be Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Air India, news agency PTI said quoting aviation industry sources. On February 14, Tata Sons had said Ayci, former chairman of Turkish Airlines, would take charge as CEO and MD of the debt-laden airline bought out by the Tatas in a $2.4 billion equity and debt deal. A spokesperson for India&#8217;s Tata, which recently took over debt-laden Air India in a $2.4 billion equity and debt deal, confirmed the development to Reuters without sharing further details. Ayci declining the Tata&#8217;s offer comes [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472260","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=472260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}