Bhatia was the Chief Sales and Revenue Officer at SpiceJet before she quit in August last year and joined Indigo
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Kamra was banned by India's largest airline for six months on Tuesday for allegedly harassing Goswami on the Mumbai-Lucknow flight
The running joke on social media is that the now-famous Indigo's captain might be forced to jump ships, or airlines
The resolution primarily failed after co-founder Rahul Bhatia's Interglobe Enterpise's voted against it. The Bhatia family and Inter-Globe Enterprises (IGE) together own 38.23 per cent.
The Federal Reserve held rates steady as expected while offering no new guidance on its balance sheet, but Chairman Jerome Powell noted that uncertainties about the outlook remain
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SpiceJet on Wednesday suspended stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra from flying with it after he allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami aboard an IndiGo Mumbai-Lucknow flight. SpiceJet is the third airline to take action against Kamra. While IndiGo suspended Kamra from flying with it for a period of six months on Tuesday itself, Air India banned him until further notice. Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had taken note of the incident on Tuesday and "advised" other airlines in India to impose similar restrictions on Kamra, stating "offensive behaviour designed to provoke & create disturbance inside an aircraft is absolutely unacceptable & endangers safety of air travellers". On Wednesday morning, SpiceJet said on Twitter, "SpiceJet has decided to suspend Mr. Kunal Kamra from flying with the airline till further notice." An AirAsia India official told PTI that the airline is waiting for the aviation regulator DGCA to issue a formal notice, and after then it will take action ...
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The low-cost carrier said that for now, it will continue to operate the Kolkata-Guangzhou flight which it is "monitoring on a daily basis"
Will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine on arrival
Kunal Kamra allegedly heckled Goswami, the editor of Republic TV, on a Mumbai-Lucknow IndiGo plane on Tuesday
The company's total income surged a robust 25.5 per cent to Rs 10,330.2 crore in the latest December quarter from Rs 8,229.3 crore in the corresponding period a year ago
The company also announced redesignating Ronojoy Dutta its whole-time director and CEO
Dutta, who is currently the CEO, has been redesignated with immediate effect and his term in the new role would be valid till January 23, 2024, according to a release
The government on Monday issued a Preliminary Information Memorandum (PIM) for 100 per cent stake sale in Air India
On the sales front, the low-cost carrier (LCC) clocked Rs 10,330 crore during the recently concluded quarter, as against sales of Rs 8,229.3 crore year-on-year (Q3FY19).
For the recently concluded quarter, analysts at Centrum Broking see the profit declining 7.7 per cent to Rs 176.3 crore primarily "due to lower net fleet addition and higher fuel costs".
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