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Pieter Elbers: KLM veteran is the new pilot in IndiGo's management cockpit

Elbers' relatively young age and expertise in developing international hubs are some of the reasons why he was selected as CEO

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Pieter Elbers

Arindam Majumder New Delhi
India’s largest airline, IndiGo, has a new pilot in its management cockpit. Starting October, former KLM CEO Pieter Elbers will be heading the low-cost carrier IndiGo, the company announced on Wednesday.

He will succeed Ronojoy Dutta who has decided to hang up his boots after almost four decades of career during which he served as a board member of US Airways, president of United Airlines and CEO of Air Sahara. In 2020, IndiGo had extended Dutta’s term as CEO till January 2024. But Dutta, now 71, is understood to have expressed his desire to relocate back to the US where

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