{"id":472270,"date":"2022-03-02T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472270"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:39:20","slug":"ilker-ayci-turns-down-tata-sons-offer-to-be-new-air-india-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ilker-ayci-turns-down-tata-sons-offer-to-be-new-air-india-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilker Ayci turns down Tata Sons&#8217; offer to be new Air India CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Airlines Ilker Ayci has rejected Air India&#8217;s CEO offer. In a statement, Ayic said his appointment was &#8216;coloured&#8217; by the Indian media, citing it as the reason to opt out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have come to the conclusion that it would not be a feasible or an honourable decision to accept the position in the shadow of such a narrative,&#8221; Ayci said in the release. He was seen as close to Turkish president Racep Tayyip Erdogan, a Pakistan ally. Erdogan had referred to the issue of Kashmir in his address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly session late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Airlines Ilker Ayci has rejected Air India&#8217;s CEO offer. In a statement, Ayic said his appointment was &#8216;coloured&#8217; by the Indian media, citing it as the reason to opt out. \u201cI have come to the conclusion that it would not be a feasible or an honourable decision to accept the position in the shadow of such a narrative,&#8221; Ayci said in the release. He was seen as close to Turkish president Racep Tayyip Erdogan, a Pakistan ally. Erdogan had referred to the issue of Kashmir in his address to world leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472270","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}