Diwali in Delhi 2006

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