Air India’s new CEO-MD named Ilkar Ayce has reportedly refused to take over the reins of privatized Air India, with Tata Sons finding a new chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) to run sent back to the drawing board. Maharaja who returned to Tata’s side after nearly seven decades. The pre-privatization board of directors and senior Tata executives will continue to oversee the day-to-day functioning of AI.
This is an avoidable wrong move. It is now five months since the government announced that Tata Sons had won the bid to drive AI. The announcement was made in October last year and the carrier was officially handed over to Tata on January 27. Even Ayci’s appointment was too late. By now, the new CEO should have led the team running the AI.
Worse, media reports suggest that Aysi is the third person who has not taken the top job after being shortlisted. Tata Sons – as expected – has not commented on the other two. But he had announced on February 14 that ICI would take over as CEO and MD of AI on or before April 1.
The IC appears to have accepted the offer, but either shelved it at the last minute or was asked not to attend. He was previously the chairman of Turkish Airlines and resigned from his position on 27 January, coinciding with the Tatas taking over AI.
The choice sparked controversy over the term Go, with one international aviation expert saying to the extent that if someone at Tata Sons had spoken to him, he would have outlined all the reasons why he was the right person for the job. was not.
It did not help that the announcement sparked a tweet by Turkish pilots advising Air India pilots not to advise the new CEO to handle matters related to unions. One post said that he was “extremely skilled at manipulating, dividing and winning. None of this was perhaps as serious as the political backlash against the choice of a Turkish citizen for the CEO of AI. Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Affiliated to the RSS, it went on to announce that it was convinced that the government would refrain from granting designated security clearance to the CEO and instead mandate that the ‘national carrier’ be manned by a person of Indian origin. Turkey’s President Erdogan reports on the IC’s close past ties with Recep Tayyip, under which the country has been supporting Pakistan’s references in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to a “human rights situation” in Jammu and Kashmir, which the Indian government pains to deny. is in.
How did this controversy not show up in the background checks conducted by Tata before proceeding to hire Ayci? How did he not foresee the turn of events?
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