Grounded carrier Jet Airways has appointed Priyapal Singh as its 'accountable manager', replacing Sudhir Gaur who resigned from the company late last year, an airline source said on Friday. A seasoned pilot, Singh took over the charge of the position in January, according to the source. The source also said that immediately after assuming the position, Singh along with the Jet Airways team met the DGCA officials and discussed various issues concerning the re-launch of operations. The consortium had on December 17 last year said Jet Airways 2.0 plans to start domestic operations at the earliest in 2022 as a full-service carrier. Singh, a squadron leader with IAF who has been associated with Jet Airways and JetLite in various capacities prior to its grounding in April 2019, moved back to Jet, which is now owned by the Murari Lal Jalan-Kalrock consortium, from the Nepal Airlines Corporation. "The new Accountable Manager Captain Priyapal Singh took over the charge on January 24 and th
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Jet Airways on Wednesday said its VP-operations, Sudhir Gaur, who was designated as the airline's 'accountable manager', has quit the company. The grounded airline, which is expected to resume operations this year under its new promoters Murari Lal Jalan-Kalrock consortium, in a regulatory filing clarified that Gaur was not the interim CEO of the company. It also said the Monitoring Committee at its meeting on January 5 has provided its "in-principle approval" to the nomination of Priyapal Singh as the new 'accountable manager' of the company. Jet Airways ceased operations in April 2019. "Sudhir Gaur is not the 'interim CEO' of the company as reported by certain news agencies. Gaur, who recently resigned from the company, was employed in July 2021 as VP- Operations and designated as the 'accountable manager' of the company (for the purposes of the requirements under civil aviation laws and regulations)," Jet Airways said in the filing. It said that the day-to-day operations and ..
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