Who is Vijay Bhatia?
Bird Group seems like younger cousin of Interglobe. Both the founders have the same surname, and they started alike.
Aviation
Hint:
He runs a Delhi-NCR based airline business.
He is not a relative of Rahul Bhatia, owner of Indigo Airlines.
He had bid for Air India Air Transport Services Limited ( the only profitable arm of AI).
Answer:
He is founder of the Bird Group. He started it in 1971, as a travel agency. His son Ankur Bhatia is leading the team now.
It added more verticals such as ticketing for foreign airlines, ground handling, charter planes, maintenance and repair.
It also runs hotels in UK and India. And, it dabbles into retail, selling BMWs and Segways.
Tell me more:
It employs more than 9000 people.
It has offices in 45 countries.
It’s turnover is INR 1000 crore approx.
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