{"id":491466,"date":"2022-05-13T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T03:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491466"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T03:47:44","slug":"tata-group-picks-new-zealander-campbell-wilson-as-air-indias-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tata-group-picks-new-zealander-campbell-wilson-as-air-indias-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Group picks New Zealander Campbell Wilson as Air India&#8217;s new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Group on Thursday named another expat \u2014 Campbell Wilson \u2014 as chief executive officer and managing director of Air India. Wilson, 50, has had long stints at Singapore Airlines and its no-frills subsidiary Scoot. Currently, he\u2019s CEO of Scoot.<\/p>\n<p>Tatas\u2019 joint venture with Singapore Airlines for Vistara may have helped the salt-to-software conglomerate narrow down on Wilson, according to people in the know.<\/p>\n<p>The first choice for Air India CEO and MD had turned controversial even before he could join. Former Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci declined to take up the Air India job after political opposition to the appointment over his links with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Group on Thursday named another expat \u2014 Campbell Wilson \u2014 as chief executive officer and managing director of Air India. Wilson, 50, has had long stints at Singapore Airlines and its no-frills subsidiary Scoot. Currently, he\u2019s CEO of Scoot. Tatas\u2019 joint venture with Singapore Airlines for Vistara may have helped the salt-to-software conglomerate narrow down on Wilson, according to people in the know. The first choice for Air India CEO and MD had turned controversial even before he could join. Former Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci declined to take up the Air India job after political opposition to [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491466","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=491466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}