When Campbell Wilson landed in Delhi in July 2022 to take charge of Air India, he was, by his own account, not the first person the Tata Group had called. The job had initially been offered to a former chairman of Turkish Airlines, who withdrew after public and government objections about his nationality and political ties. Ratan Tata then turned to Singapore Airlines, an old partner of the Tatas, who pointed him towards Wilson with their full backing.
Wilson was 51, a New Zealander from Christchurch who had spent the entirety of his professional life with the Singapore Airlines group.
He had a Master of Commerce with first-class honours from the University of Canterbury, and colleagues over three decades had described him as punctilious and genial.
He had opened Scoot, Singapore Airlines‘ low-cost carrier, from scratch in 2011 and led it to becoming profitable before returning to SIA as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In April 2020, as the pandemic led to a near collapse of global aviation, Campbell went back to Scoot for a second stint to do what he earned recognition for – to steer the low-cost carrier through the wreckage, as per media reports.
Come 2022, Wilson Campbell officially took charge of Air India on July 25, 2022.
Wilson’s first formal act was to lay out a five-year transformation roadmap he called Vihaan.AI, an initiative aimed at making Air India a world-class global airline with what he described as an “Indian heart.” This is as per the Air India press releases dated September 15, 2022, just two months after Wilson joined Air India.
13/04/2026 Financial Express
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