Jet plans to hire Saroj Datta in an advisory role

Over a month after Saroj Datta’s term with Jet Airways as executive director ended, the airline is planning to hire him in an advisory role.

“We are planning to hire Datta on contract. He will have a limited role in the company’s day-to-day functioning and mainly have an advisory role,” said a Jet Airways executive, who did not want to be identified. Datta’s stint in Jet came to an end towards the end of September.

Datta, one of the key founding members of Jet, had said it was painful to leave the carrier. “Leaving a place where you have worked for 20 years is painful. It is painful to leave those colleagues with whom I have been working many years. Even the thought of not seeing the place where you have been for so many years is painful,” he had told Business Standard. He had said he planned to start a business related to aviation soon.

An airline spokesperson said she had no such information. Datta refused to talk on any matter related to Jet. He had joined Air India in 1962.