Naresh Goyal, a tough negotiator who buckled up for turbulent times

Naresh Goyal has been known as a tough negotiator and suave businessman who helped sway policy environment to suit his airline

For more than two decades, Naresh Goyal has ruled the domestic skies. With his resignation from Jet Airways, an era has come to an end in Indian aviation. From humble beginnings as a cashier in his uncle’s travel agency, Goyal went on to become the country’s most enduring aviation entrepreneur, transforming the travel experience of Indians along the way.

Goyal, who sold seats and cargo loads of other airlines as a general sales agent, launched Jet Airways in 1993. Jet was not the first private domestic airline of that era, but the only one to survive to date. East-West Airlines