From a professor to an aviation startup: Meet Jet Airways' newest bidders

2019-05-16 2

After Etihad Airways decided they want to be a minority shareholder in the beleaguered Jet Airways and promised to invest only Rs 1,700 crore, banks are forced to look at other suitors to save the airline. They have started approaching unsolicited bidders that include a former air passenger service agent, a US-based professor, former head of a Bengaluru software company and member of an influential Indian political family.