Kingfisher’s sales chief quits in fourth top-level departure

New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines Ltd’s vice-president for global sales Siva Ramachandran has quit, days before the carrier starts flights to new destinations in South-East Asia, marking the company’s fourth top-management exit this year.
Ramachandran was instrumental in launching Kingfisher’s international operations late last year. He declined to comment when asked about his resignation.
A Kingfisher spokesman also declined to comment while saying that next week’s launches were “completely on track”.
Vijay K. Arora, a long-time executive of the parent UB Group, is managing sales, said a Kingfisher official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Arora, who was heading Kingfisher’s sales for the northern and eastern zones till February, has been given charge of domestic sales.
It was not immediately clear whether Ramachandran, a former regional manager at Qatar Airways, would be taking up a new appointment.
His resignation may hit the upcoming launches—daily direct flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong and Singapore.
07/09/09 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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