India’s IndiGo airline names former Air India Express CEO as strategy chief

Indian low-”Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo said on Monday it appointed Aloke Singh as its chief strategy officer, weeks after the airline announced the departure of CEO Pieter Elbers.

Singh, who served at the helm of IndiGo’s rival, Air India Express, for five years, will join India’s largest carrier on April 6.

IndiGo has a roughly 65% market share in India, the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. It cancelled 4,500 flights in December in what was the biggest crisis in IndiGo’s 20-year history.

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Regulators later reprimanded Elbers for “inadequate overall oversight of flight operations and crisis management”.

Singh will report to IndiGo co-founder and managing director Rahul Bhatia, who is leading the airline in the interim.