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Air India's CEO choice leaves many questions

How actively did the aviation experts in the Tata group - which already had two airlines - participate in the selection process of the Air India chief?

Ilker Ayci
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Ilker Ayci

Nivedita Mookerji
The Tata group has begun its second innings with Air India from a war zone. Being first up in Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals from Ukraine, the salt-to-software conglomerate has faced a real war. But the fire-fighting that the group experienced in appointing a chief executive officer (CEO) for the airline that it acquired from the government in a Rs 18,000-crore deal recently may have felt no less. While Ilker Ayci “declining’’ the Air India CEO offer is unlikely to make a dent in the business or operations of the airline in any significant way, the run-up to his
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