JET Airways Din't DIE --- It was Murdered !!

"20,000 employees paid the price for mismanagement they never caused.”

That’s the real tragedy of Jet Airways — an airline that didn’t collapse because the market was tough, but because the people running it were blind to their own decisions.

Think about it:

Jet was once India’s gold standard in aviation.

Premium brand, loyal customers, global routes, industry respect. And yet, behind the glossy branding, the balance sheet was bleeding in silence.

By 2019, the numbers were catastrophic:

– ₹8,414 crore unpaid to banks.

– ₹37,000–40,000+ crore in insolvency claims.

– 78 out of 119 aircraft repossessed.

– Salaries delayed, vendors unpaid, operations held together with hope instead of cash.

This wasn’t a failure.

This was a slow, predictable, board-sanctioned disaster.

Management kept expanding routes while working capital evaporated.

The board kept approving decisions that ignored basic financial hygiene.

Etihad’s ₹2,060 crore infusion didn’t fix anything — it just postponed the inevitable.

And when the crisis finally hit, it wasn’t the decision-makers who suffered.

It was the ground staff, the pilots, the crew, the engineers — the 20,000 people who kept the airline running… until leadership stopped doing the same.

Jet Airways didn’t crash in the skies.

It crashed in the boardroom.

At what point does “ambition” turn into “irresponsibility”?