{"id":27224,"date":"2023-03-16T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/air-mauritius-somas-appavou-out-what-next"},"modified":"2023-03-16T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:02:49","slug":"air-mauritius-somas-appavou-out-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/air-mauritius-somas-appavou-out-what-next","title":{"rendered":"Air Mauritius: Somas Appavou out. What next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Just as Air Mauritius is struggling to cope with travel restrictions placed by the government in the wake of the COVID-19 and the airline has announced it\u2019s embarking on an ambitious restructuring exercise, the CEO of Air Mauritius, Somas Appavou, has thrown in the towel and quit.<\/p>\n<p>Ostensibly, the move is to take up a job at the International Air Transport Association (IATA). However, recent changes within the airline cast doubt on that explanation alone.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly takes a look at the brief, but turbulent reign of Appavou as the CEO of the national airline. Following the violence in Delhi, India, last week, Weekly speaks to Dev Virahsawmy, writer and political observer.<\/p>\n<p>Known as anti-Modi, particularly among the supporters of Modi\u2019s ideology, Virahsawmy gives us a straightforward, rather provocative interview, in his usual fearless, no-holds barred style. He warns against the \u201ccoming danger\u201d of the Hindutva movement and its influence in Mauritius and the propagation of Modi\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Just as Air Mauritius is struggling to cope with travel restrictions placed by the government in the wake of the COVID-19 and the airline has announced it\u2019s embarking on an ambitious restructuring exercise, the CEO of Air Mauritius, Somas Appavou, has thrown in the towel and quit. Ostensibly, the move is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,245,252,241],"class_list":["post-27224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-covid-19","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Air Mauritius: Somas Appavou out. 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