Chennai-born Mittu Chandilya, Chief Executive Officer, AirAsia India, feels that the high level of social awareness and community feeling in his city of birth plays well with the culture of the soon-to-be launched airline.
Though the airline’s takeoff has been delayed and is now likely some time in December, Chandilya feels in India, you need to be patient and respect the processes.
Excerpts from an interview:
Walk us through your life in and from Chennai.
I was born in Chennai. I left Chennai when I was three. We went to Kolkata for a few years and then to Nigeria. I left Africa when I was nine years old and moved to Rishi Valley, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh, in 1989.
Since the age of nine, I have been living alone and that is a big part of who I am. I am very comfortable with people who are older than me. You have to grow up when you are living alone since a young age, especially in a boarding school, where I was initially bullied and beaten up.
21/08/13 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line
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Though the airline’s takeoff has been delayed and is now likely some time in December, Chandilya feels in India, you need to be patient and respect the processes.
Excerpts from an interview:
Walk us through your life in and from Chennai.
I was born in Chennai. I left Chennai when I was three. We went to Kolkata for a few years and then to Nigeria. I left Africa when I was nine years old and moved to Rishi Valley, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh, in 1989.
Since the age of nine, I have been living alone and that is a big part of who I am. I am very comfortable with people who are older than me. You have to grow up when you are living alone since a young age, especially in a boarding school, where I was initially bullied and beaten up.
21/08/13 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line
