Two weeks after quitting Jet Airways, Sanjiv Kapoor has joined the Saudia Group to be a part of the team responsible for transforming the flag carrier Saudia and the creation of Riyadh Air. Kapoor takes over as the advisor to Ibrahim Al-Omar, director general of the group. The Jeddah-based carrier was formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines. It has a fleet size of around 150 aircraft; roughly the same size of a combined Air Indian and Vistara.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am excited at the opportunity of working with a highly passionate and talented team and being part of what promises to be an exciting journey ahead,\u201d Kapoor said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
Kapoor\u2019s appointment is in line with the mega expansion plan of the two Gulf carriers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two weeks after quitting Jet Airways, Sanjiv Kapoor has joined the Saudia Group to be a part of the team responsible for transforming the flag carrier Saudia and the creation of Riyadh Air. Kapoor takes over as the advisor to Ibrahim Al-Omar, director general of the group. The Jeddah-based carrier was formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines. It has a fleet size of around 150 aircraft; roughly the same size of a combined Air Indian and Vistara. \u201cI am excited at the opportunity of working with a highly passionate and talented team and being part of what promises to be […]<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577878","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=577878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}