Last Updated: September 06, 2022, 20:01 IST
Pieter Elbers has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines since 2014. (Image: information.klm.com)
IndiGo had earlier introduced the appointment of Elbers as its new CEO after Ronojoy Dutta’s “decision” to retire on September 30
Budget service IndiGo has stated Pieter Elbers, who was named as the Chief Executive Officer of the corporate to switch Ronojoy Dautta, has joined the place from Tuesday. The airline had introduced the appointment of Elbers as its new CEO following Dutta’s “decision” to retire on September 30.
“Petrus Johannes Theodorus Elbers (Pieter Elbers) has joined as Chief Executive Officer of the company with effect from today, September 6,” IndiGo stated in a regulatory submitting on Tuesday. The 71-year-old Dutta got here to the helm of the airline in January 2019, and guided IndiGo via the turbulent COVID-19 interval.
Prior to approaching board the nation’s largest airline by home market share, Elbers served as the president and chief govt officer of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and likewise as a member of the manager committee of the Air France KLM Group. He is the fourth CEO of IndiGo since its launch. Bruce Ashby was the primary CEO of IndiGO from 2005 to 2008, who additionally virtually launched the airline in August 2006.
Following Ashby’s determination to return to the US in late 2008, IndiGo introduced in its then director Aditya Ghosh as the brand new CEO and later elevated him to the place of president on the airline. After serving the finances service for a decade Ghosh give up the corporate in 2018.
While IndiGo appointed Dutta as the CEO after 9 months of Ghosh’s departure from the corporate, within the interim interval, IndiGo co-founder and promoter Rahul Bhatia reportedly served as its interim CEO.
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