Former CEO of now-shut Jet Airways and GoAir, Vinay Dube is planning to start a domestic airline with five aircraft in 2021, a media report said. The former JetAirways CEO has reportedly collaborated with his airline colleagues Praveen Iyer and Nikhil Ved for the venture and talked to Airbus and Boeing, the aircraft manufacturers, a report by CNBC-TV18 said. 

Dube has held more than one round of discussions with the civil aviation ministry and the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) regarding the airline, the report said. 

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According to a report by The Hindu BusinessLine, Dube met civil aviation ministry officials not just to discuss the proposed airline but there were “many independent reasons.” The report, however, does not specify on the details of the discussion on other agendas.

Dube has conveyed a “premature, yet firm” plan to launch the new airline, report said, adding that the sources said the airline ” was likely to be a low-cost-carrier.”

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Dube had quit Jet Airways in May 2019, soon after the airline had stopped its operations. He quit as the CEO of GoAir in August 2020, six months after taking over the position. Dube has earlier worked with American Airlines and Delta Airlines and had joined Jet Airways in 2017. 

The Murari Lal Jalan-Kalrock Capital consortium, which won the bid for Jet Airways in 2020, is planning to restart the airways in the coming months.