Magic Airlines India
My time with Magic Airlines, India was from
Nov 2004 to Mar 2006.
Based in New Delhi.
Magic was then a new start up
LCC airline that was due to launch in Oct 2005. It had 4 Malaysians in the
startup team namely:
Ng Fook Meng - VP Engineering & Project Head.
M
Subramanium - VP Finance
S
Murugesu - VP Commercial
Myself - VP Flight Operation.
It was about the same time as Spice & before Kingfisher were also seeking "NOC" (no objection certificate). Run by
Nira Radia, a very bright, energetic and capable lady, who was also owner & Chairman of
Vaishnavi, one of India's largest Corporate Communications firms. The
Tata Group, if I am not mistaken, is their biggest client.
Unknown forces however, prevented the airline from being granted the "NOC", and we dismantled in March 2006. A sad day as the airline would have gone places and made a name for itself.
Some of the Magic's family are present below, in a Diwali gathering held at
Nira's (Boss) farmhouse in Delhi. She joined us a bit later.
Below from left:
Muru,
Meriam,
Meng,
Chari (Engineering) &
Chandrasekara (Advisor ex- Indian Airlines)
Karuna Maam! Nira's (Bosses) sister with Chandrasekara & Muru.
When two Engineer's get together guess what the subject of their conversation would be??
From left:
Subramanium, Chetan,
Muru,
Rejev Mohan (Director Corporate Affairs) and
Meriam.
This time with me in the group.
From left; Rejev's wife, Subra, Muru, Chetan, Roland & Meriam