The Center is examining an application for the protection of Air India Chief Executive Officer Campbell Wilson. It will approve it after thorough background check is completed.
Air India’s designated CEO Campbell Wilson’s application for security clearance is being considered and approval will be given after the background check is completed, officials with knowledge of the matter said.
Under government rules, the approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs is mandatory for appointment of key personnel in private companies, which also include foreign nationals.
After Air India, Tata Sons announced Wilson’s appointment in May this year. “However, since security clearance is taking time, Wilson is yet to formally take charge of Air India,” industry sources said. The airline has not commented on the issue.
In a message to Air India employees on June 20, Wilson said the airline’s “best of years are yet to come” and the journey to make it a world-class airline will require efforts “big and small, easy and difficult”.
An aviation industry veteran with over 26 years of experience, Wilson started in New Zealand in 1996 as a management trainee with Singapore Airlines.
He then went on to pursue careers in Canada, Hong Kong and Japan, and served as the founding CEO of Scoot before returning to Singapore in 2011, which he led until 2016.
He then served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Singapore Airlines, where he served as CEO of Pricing, Distribution, E-commerce, Merchandising, Brand and Marketing, Global Sales and Airline, before returning for a second term. Oversight of foreign offices. Scooty in April 2020.
Weeks after taking over the carrier, Tata Sons on February 14 named former Turkish Airlines chairman Lyker I as the MD and CEO of Air India.
However, Ayci, a Turkish citizen who was to take office on April 1, refused to join the group amid concerns in some quarters over his alleged close ties with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
Erdogan had taken an anti-India stand on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions in the past.
Air India was started by the Tata group in 1932 and the carrier was nationalized in 1953.
(with inputs from agencies)
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