July 8, 2006
Jet Airways appoints Capt. Werner Borchert as Vice President - Flight Operations
Capt. Werner Borchert has been appointed as Vice President - Flight Operations of Jet Airways (Q, N,C,F)* India.
Borchert comes with over 20 years of international experience in the airline business. In his last assignments Capt. Borchert was VP-Operations & Technical in Etihad and Sr. Vice President - Operations in LTU International Airways.
Further, the company also disclosed that Rajesh Verma, Vice President - Customer Services & Inflight has resigned from the services of the company.
Jet had recently filed a transfer petition before the Supreme Court in connection to the Rs 23 billion Jet-Air Sahara deal. The airline commenting on failure of the deal, partly blamed the government`s unclear policy on airline mergers and acquisitions for its decision not to extend the time-limit of the share purchase agreement to acquire Air Sahara.