{"id":2581,"date":"2017-04-14T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T07:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2018-05-21T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:37:06","slug":"turning-a-company-around-and-flying-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/turning-a-company-around-and-flying-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a company around and flying high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloncampus.com\/hangout-at-bloc\/movers-and-shakers\/turning-around-a-company-and-flying-high\/article9634201.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2016\/03\/HBL1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2016\/03\/HBL1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2016\/03\/HBL1-260x60.png 260w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2016\/03\/HBL1-50x11.png 50w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2016\/03\/HBL1-150x35.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>SpiceJet CEO Ajay SIngh talks about how he made the airline profitable<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH-194x146.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/files\/2018\/05\/BLOC12_AJAY-SINGH-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do you turn around a business that incurs a loss of \u20b93 crore a day, into one that makes a profit of \u20b91 crore, every single day? Well, this is no fairy tale but a reality and the story of Ajay Singh, CEO of SpiceJet.<\/p>\n<p>With absolutely no background in the aviation industry, how did he turn the company, that even Lufthansa airlines failed to run, from near bankruptcy to one of the most profitable airlines in India? \u201cWell, we were all young and foolish, and at that point, you feel like you can do anything,\u201d he laughs, adding, \u201cBut I did fundamentally believe that there was a market and there was talent to run a business of this sort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajay was also the brain behind Narendra Modi\u2019s election-winning slogan, \u2018Ab ki baar, Modi Sarkar\u2019. In this week\u2019s podcast, he speaks about how he got into the industry, how he managed to turn the company around, and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/317188858&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: lfet;\">Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloncampus.com\/hangout-at-bloc\/movers-and-shakers\/turning-around-a-company-and-flying-high\/article9634201.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bloncampus.com\/hangout-at-bloc\/movers-and-shakers\/turning-around-a-company-and-flying-high\/article9634201.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpiceJet CEO Ajay SIngh talks about how he made the airline profitable How do you turn around a business that incurs a loss of \u20b93 crore a day, into one that makes a profit of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}