A big problem with Kingfisher was that it never really had a professional management. Nigel Harwood was its CEO for the first year of its operations, but that was about all. Kingfisher always remained a one-man show unlike the professional and team-managed IndiGo. Mallya always believed that he was sufficient to manage the airline all by himself. By the time creditors forced him to bring in a professional CEO, Sanjay Aggarwal, in September 2010, it was too late. Commenting on the affairs of airline, aviation analyst Mohan Ranganathan pointed out, ‘Things went out of control further because
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