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AISATS wins ‘Best Innovation Champion Service Provider Award’ at Wings India 2024
Mumbai: Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt Ltd (AISATS), India’s leading airport services management company, has been honoured with the esteemed ‘Best Innovation Champion Service Provider Award’ at Wings India 2024. The award reinforces AISATS’s role as a trailblazer in advancing aviation solutions at its airports across India. Presented by the Hon’ble Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri. Jyotiraditya Scindia, this recognition underscores AISATS’s steadfast dedication to transforming industry standards through ground-breaking solutions, solidifying the company’s position as a leader in innovative aviation services.
At the core of this triumph lies the revolutionary AeroWash – India’s first and only Robotic Dry Wash Aircraft Exterior Cleaning Service, symbolizing AISATS’s dedication to providing automated airport solutions. AISATS is the only ground handler in the world to provide such a game-changing aircraft cleaning innovation. Besides AeroWash, AISATS provides a comprehensive suite of advancements, including the Solar-Powered Boarding Ramp (for narrow-body aircrafts), versatile wide-body and ATR boarding ramps, electric passenger coaches for eco-friendly airport operations, solar-powered GPUs and lighting towers, an aircraft mock-up for hands-on ground service equipment (GSE) training, and Green GSEs contributing to global sustainability. Collectively, these innovations solidify AISATS’s position as a leading solutions provider to the aviation industry.
AISATS CEO Sanjay Gupta said, “Securing the ‘Best Innovation Champion Service Provider Award’ at Wings India 2024 marks a significant milestone for AISATS. With technology at our core, we are continuously transforming our services to offer innovative solutions that cater to the demands of the modern aviation era. Our team’s relentless effort and unwavering commitment are propelling us beyond boundaries, redefining excellence and innovation in the aviation landscape. Embracing cutting-edge technology and sustainability initiatives, we unveiled unprecedented solutions last year, aligning seamlessly with the Digital India ethos. This recognition fuels our passion even further, and we pledge to uphold our dedication to delivering unparalleled service to clients, actively contributing to the advancement of the nation’s aviation industry.”
With a proven track record of delivering seamless ground and cargo handling solutions to partner airlines, AISATS has its presence in Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Ranchi and Trivandrum. AISATS is now setting its sights on the future, with the development of its Multi-Modal Cargo Hub (MMCH) at the upcoming international airport in Noida and cargo logistics park at Bangalore Airport.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
