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Naresh Goyal, from ticketing agent to airline mogul

Updated: March 25th, 2019, 19:57 IST
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Mumbai: Naresh Goyal, a former ticketing agent who went on to build one of India’s biggest airlines, has stepped down as chairman of cash-strapped Jet Airways India Ltd after caving in to pressure from creditors.

Jet’s board approved resignation of Goyal, 69, and his wife Anita, the second biggest full-service airline in India said in a filing Monday. Banks, which will get 11.4 crore new shares in the company, will provide the carrier with an immediate funding of as much as Rs 1,500 crore in debt.

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The resignation marks the end of an era as Goyal, once ranked as one of India’s 100 richest people, who is widely seen as a pioneer in India’s fast-growing aviation industry. The move comes after his flagship company, partly owned by Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways PJSC, fell victim to the emergence of budget carriers offering base fares as low as 2 cents.

His departure removes a potential obstacle for creditors, who are seeking to overhaul the company and salvage a carrier that’s grounded about two-thirds of its fleet. Jet is currently 24 per cent owned by Etihad, but the shareholding pattern will change after issuance of shares. Lenders will now own more than 50 per cent of the carrier.

“The Jet Airways debt saga has entered a decisive phase,” said Rajesh Narain Gupta, Managing Partner of law firm SNG & Partners. “Banks have no other option but to pick up the major stake and find a new promoter for the debt-laden airline. However, it remains to be seen how successful banks become in managing an airline, going beyond their core competence.”

Lenders led by State Bank of India, have proposed an intricate bailout package, under which banks have a majority of the company for 1 rupee — less than one US cent — while giving the ailing airline time to arrange fresh equity. Jet shareholders approved the plan last month, allowing banks to nominate their representatives to the board, but there’s no progress in getting new investors. The banking consortium will appoint merchant bankers to sell the stake in Jet, Rajnish Kumar, SBI’s chairman, told media. Everyone including Goyal and Etihad will be allowed to bid, he said.

Goyal’s childhood
Little is known about Goyal’s childhood but he began his career in aviation as a ticketing agent for Lebanese International Airlines. In 1991, he started Jet Airways after India opened up its economy, and the airline started flying two years later. Over the years, he would expand Jet, then part-owned by Gulf Air and Kuwait Air, into the country’s second-largest airline behind flag carrier Air India. Then budget airlines such as InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.’s IndiGo and SpiceJet began emerging more than a decade ago, roiling the industry with discounted prices for no-frill services. Compounding Jet Airways’ woes were a depreciating Indian rupee and surging oil prices. The harsher competitive environment forced Air India to seek multiple taxpayer-funded bailouts and the likes of Kingfisher Airlines Ltd., headed by fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya, went out of business.

As a result, Jet Airways posted losses in nine of the past 11 years and struggled to pay its debt. Cumulative losses bloated to about $1.6 billion as of the end of March 2018.

 

 

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