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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
IndiGo appoints Ton Dortmans to lead A350 service, MRO growth plans
IndiGo has announced that Ton Dortmans will be joining the airline around mid-August 2025. He will play a key role in preparing for the technical entry into service of IndiGo's Airbus A350 aircraft and help enhance the airline's overall Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) capabilities. Dortmans brings four decades of experience from his time at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He spent the last 13 years there as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Maintenance. Supporting IndiGo's growth strategy In line with IndiGo's strategic plan, 'Towards New Heights and Across New Frontiers', introduced in mid-2022, the airline has been launching various growth initiatives. One major step includes the order of Airbus A350 wide-body aircraft, expected to start arriving in 2027. These aircraft, equipped with Rolls-Royce engines, mark a significant step as IndiGo enters the wide-body segment for the first time. With a current fleet of over 400 aircraft and more than 900 on order, IndiGo is working to develop extensive in-house MRO capabilities in India. As part of this effort, the airline opened its second hangar in Bengaluru in 2023. Dortmans will report to Chief Operating Officer Isidro Porqueras and work closely with Senior Vice President of Engineering, Parichay Dutta. IndiGo has also set up an office in Amsterdam to support its expansion in Europe. From July 2025, flights to Manchester and Amsterdam are set to begin. Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers said, 'Ton has a wealth of experience in the field of MRO and wide-body airline operations that IndiGo will benefit from. At IndiGo, we are delighted and grateful that, post retiring from his illustrious KLM career, Ton will join us to support IndiGo's team for the next phase to become a Global Aviation player. The opportunity to develop such MRO capabilities in-house for IndiGo in India with home-grown talent and the volumes of our operation was just not to be missed.' Vikram Singh Mehta appointed IndiGo's new chairman In a separate announcement, IndiGo has named Vikram Singh Mehta as the new chairman of its board. He will take over from Venkataramani Sumantran, who has served as chairman for the past three years. Sumantran stepped down following the completion of his five-year term as a board member, as stated in an exchange filing. 'Sumantran was appointed as the Chairman of the Board in May 2022 and post Covid, navigated the Board during IndiGo's strong recovery and incredible growth over the past three years,' the company noted.
Gulf Today
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Today
Syrians hope for justice, but face long road ahead
After searching for years for his son and brothers following their arrest and disappearance by Bashar Al Assad's forces, Syrian real estate broker Maher Al Ton hopes he may finally get justice under the new authorities. Last week, the government announced the creation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice. That, along with the new rulers' arrests of alleged human rights violators linked to the ousted president's government, have made Ton feel hopeful. 'I feel like my son might still be alive,' the 54-year-old said. Mohammad Al Abdallah, executive director of the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, said that 'there are random arrests of individuals without a plan to search for the missing or to open central investigations into the crime of enforced disappearance, or even to protect mass graves.' Assad's forces arrested Ton's son Mohammed Nureddin in 2018 near Damascus when he was just 17 years old, and has not been heard from since. 'I hope justice and fairness will prevail, and that they will reclaim our rights from the Syrian Arab Army which unjustly took our sons,' he said, using the since disbanded military's official name. Rights groups have welcomed the establishment of the justice commissions, but criticised the limiting of their scope to crimes committed by Assad's government. Syria's war erupted in 2011 with a brutal government crackdown on democracy protesters that saw tens of thousands of people accused of dissent either jailed or killed. Over time, armed groups emerged to battle Assad's military, including radical forces that committed atrocities. During the war, rights groups accused the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) group, once affiliated with Al Qaeda, of abuses including unlawful detention and torture. HTS spearheaded the offensive that ousted Assad in December, and its leaders now form the core of the new government. Diab Serriya, a co-founder of the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Saydnaya Prison, said that while Assad's government was 'the biggest perpetrator of human rights violations,' that does not 'absolve the other parties in the conflict.' The new body, he said, 'does not meet the aspirations of victims'. Agence France-Presse
Los Angeles Times
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Fountain Valley girls, Newport Harbor boys earn top-five finishes at CIF D1 swim finals
WALNUT — Fountain Valley High School sophomore Alyssa Ton celebrated her Sweet 16 birthday on Saturday. Ton gave herself two great gifts at the CIF Southern Section Division 1 Swimming Championships. She won the girls' 200- and 500-yard freestyle events going away, posting personal-best times in each event in the process. 'I didn't know [the meet] was on my birthday until maybe a couple of weeks ago,' Ton said. 'I think honestly, it's pretty fun to have it on my birthday. To go lifetime bests in both [events] on my birthday, that's really fun.' The special talent helped the Barons' girls place a strong third place as a team, up two spots from a year ago. Newport Harbor's boys set three school records at the Division 1 finals and finished tied for fifth as a team. Ton repeated as Division 1 girls' 200 freestyle champion, going out fast and cruising to a first-place finish in a time of 1 minute, 44.12 seconds. 'I wanted to go out pretty fast and see if I could hold on, and I think I did just that,' she said. She won the girls' 500 freestyle by nearly five seconds, cruising to the wall in 4:43.19. Fountain Valley coach Nathan Wilcox said that at Thursday's meet preliminaries, Ton had broken the 1974 school record of Olympic champion Shirley Babashoff in the event. She lowered that time by more than a full second on Saturday. She also swam leadoff as the Fountain Valley 200 medley relay team, which also featured senior Kaitlyn Nguyen, freshman Audrey Prall and senior Leyna Nguyen, touched third in 1:45.04. Kaitlyn Nguyen finished second in the 200 IM and fourth in the breaststroke for the Barons, while Wilcox said his team also benefited from the improvement of Leyna Nguyen, who made the 'A' final in the 50 free and the 'B' final of the 100 freestyle. 'We're building something really good at Fountain Valley,' Wilcox said. 'We're hoping that in three to five years, we're up there with Santa Margarita and we have a chance of winning it every year. That's the goal. That's what we're trying to build.' Newport Harbor junior Connor Ohl won the boys' 50 free in 20.04 seconds, a week after swimming a 19.79 at Sunset League finals to become the second Orange County boy to go under 20 seconds. 'I only wanted to win when I came here today, and that's what I did,' said Ohl, who also placed fourth in the 100 freestyle. 'It's obviously not a 19, but to win any day is a great day. It's awesome.' Sailors senior Aidan Arie won the consolation final in the boys' 200 IM in 1:48.83, a time that would have placed him second in the championship final. In doing so, he broke the school record in the event set by Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol in 2000. It was the third individual school record of Arie's high school career. '[Peirsol] still has a standing world record, that's the crazy part,' said Arie, who also took second place in the butterfly. 'The 200 back is still his. I was looking at his record on the board, and I was like, 'Can I do that?' It's pretty cool to take him down. I'm just stoked.' Later in the meet, Arie also helped the Sailors also set school records in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. The 200 free relay quartet of Dash D'Ambrosia, James Mulvey, Arie and Ohl touched third in 1:22.63, while the 400 free relay featuring the same swimmers in the same order also finished third in 3:01.63. Newport Harbor coach Kevin Potter said the Sailors boys set school records in six of 11 events this year, while Arie also set the 500 freestyle record last year. The Newport Harbor pool is under reconstruction and set to reopen next school year. 'Next year, when that new record board goes up, it's going to be a lot of new names on there,' Ohl said. 'Mulvey and Dash really wanted to have their names on that board.' Fountain Valley junior Peter Vu finished third in both of his individual events, the 200 IM and the breaststroke. In the girls' breaststroke event, CdM sophomore Sofia Szymanowski broke her own school record and placed a strong second in 1:00.79, less than four-tenths of a second behind repeat champion Bella Brito from Mira Costa. Szymanowski said a bee sting suffered during preliminaries affected her in her other strokes, but not as much in the breaststroke. 'I'm going to be sad when they're graduated next year,' Symanowski said of Nguyen, who is her training partner in club swimming at Irvine Novaquatics, and Brito. 'I just love racing against them.' CdM's Nikki Lahey, Szymanowski, Alex Milisavljevic and Kennedy Smith placed eighth in the medley relay, while Szymanowski, Milisavljevic, Josie Alaluf and Lahey were ninth in the 200 free relay. CdM's girls also finished ninth as a team. Lahey, a senior, capped her high school career with two individual championship finals. She was seventh in the girls' 100 free and eighth in the 50 free. Edison junior Holden Lee also made two championship finals, finishing fourth in the boys' backstroke and eighth in the butterfly. Costa Mesa's boys, who had won the Division 3 championship in 2023 and the Division 2 title last year, found the going more tough in Division 1. Still, Mustangs junior Avrum Xagorarakis was the consolation champion in the 200 freestyle on Saturday. Santa Margarita's girls won their 11th straight CIF team title at the meet, while the Santa Margarita boys won their fifth straight crown. Wilcox said that several his top Irvine Novaquatics club swimmers will now turn their attention to the USA Swimming National Championships, set for June 3-7 in Indianapolis. But Arie said he will compete at the CIF State Swimming Championships, which begin Friday at Clovis Olympic Swim Complex. Marina senior Jadyn Chaffins finished fifth in the 50 free on Friday at Mt. SAC, touching in 24.59 seconds and ending her career as the second-fastest in the event in Vikings history. Among other swimmers in championship finals, Costa Mesa sophomore Melanie Pang placed sixth in the 100 breaststroke and Sage Hill senior Dylan Rosmann finished fifth in the boys' 100 freestyle. Ocean View sophomore Thai Nguyen placed ninth in the boys' 100 breaststroke, pacing local finishers on Friday at Mt. SAC. Ocean View's girls placed ninth as a team at the finals Thursday at Mt. SAC. Seahawks senior Morgan Carles placed top three in each of her individual events. She was second in the 100 backstroke in 59.68 and third in the 100 freestyle in 53.11. Fellow Ocean View senior Gabrielle Singer was eighth in the 100 free. The Ocean View girls' 400 free relay team of Singer, Gaby Zifcak, Serena Ruiz and Carles placed third in 4:01.90.
Daily Record
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Ex-Morton star can offer Airdrie play-off advice after dumping Diamonds
Lewis Strapp was part of a 'Ton side that beat Airdrie in 2021 Defender Lewis Strapp is ideally placed to give Airdrie team-mates advice on how to survive a Championship play-off scrap – after dumping the Diamonds with Morton in 2021. The Greenock side went 1-0 up at Airdrie in the first leg, with a Robbie Muirhead header eight minutes into stoppage time, but then produced a 'miracle' to thump the Diamonds 3-0 at Cappielow. Strapp, who joined from Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho in Finland in January, after leaving Morton last summer, reckons similar performances will be needed in their semi-final at Stenhousemuir on Tuesday and Airdrie on Saturday. He said: 'Tuesday night is massive for us, the first one is away from home, so you want to go there, put a good marker down and you would imagine there would be people here watching from whoever we're going to be playing. 'I hope they saw that we're going to be at it, causing problems. Lewis McGregor came in, made a nuisance of himself. I was at centre-half, Craig Watson at right-back, and if they could see what we did, hopefully we should turn up on Tuesday. 'At Morton we had the play-offs and actually played Airdrie. 'It's not a nice feeling, but we've got to put that to the back of our minds and focus on these games. 'You obviously want to go into them with full focus and everybody ready to go. 'We're excited, we've got a good group here of young boys, so hopefully that will put us in good stead. 'I think when you go up a division its a wee bit different from the Championship. 'We've got four games, and some boys are thinking about holidays and things like that, so the older boys have got to keep the younger boys' heads on the line. 'I've been in there before, it's not nice, but we've got a good group.' Strapp reckons Airdrie have hit a bit of form since a raft of injuries cleared up, and hopes that puts them in a good position this week. He said: 'I wasn't here for the first six months, but since Christmas, if you look at the form it's good. 'I know before it was like nine boys training on a Friday before a game on the Saturday, and just throwing boys in anywhere to play, get boys on the pitch and get the game going. 'We have to forget about that and just think about what we've done in the second part of the season. 'We go into these games potentially full strength for the first time in a while. 'There's not so many boys injured just now in the physio room, we're trying to keep everybody out there, and what was said on Friday was don't be diving into silly challenges, we've got massive games coming up, and I think to a man we did well.' Airdrie ended their league season with a 1-0 defeat to Ayr United on Friday night, with Ben Dempsey scoring with a back-post header two minutes from the interval. Strapp said: 'There were a few changes in the team to get some boys some minutes, and rest some boys that are probably going to start on Tuesday night. 'We went out there and we did cause them problems, I think everybody saw that, and on a different day we maybe could have gone in 2-0 or 1-0 up at half-time. 'Even in the second half when the subs came on we were still at it, creating chances, but we were maybe a wee bit more direct than what we were doing, but some boys were playing out of position. 'It was a good performance, just lacking the killer finish to get a goal. 'Ayr are a good team, we thought they were going to rest a few players but they had some of the boys who are going to be starting on Tuesday.'
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘We're coming for it': TON Foundation President eyes second place after Bitcoin
Manny Stotz, President of the TON Foundation, laid out a bold vision for the future of blockchain — and the role TON hopes to play in it. Roundtable host Rob Nelson opened the conversation by comparing Bitcoin's differing uses across the world. 'Bitcoin may be a store of value. If you're a US investor, you may want to hold it like digital gold,' he said. 'If you are in a country with massive inflation, it's a currency. It's a tool to actually do things.' He continued, 'What you're saying is that concept plays out over the larger space of the blockchain. There is utility that's very different for some people that we don't need here.' As the conversation moved toward investment trends and future technologies, Nelson pointed to the efforts of major tech players to adapt. 'Mark Zuckerberg switched to Meta trying to do that for a reason,' Nelson said. 'I don't think he can turn Facebook around. It's turning the Titanic around. It's almost too big. But he sees where it's going. He knows what this future looks like.' Manny Stotz agreed. 'No, I fully agree. And again, I don't want to speak ill of anyone including Facebook, but they've definitely seen the writing on the wall that this is basically a big part of the future,' he said. 'When you're sitting on Mark Zuckerberg's throne — last time I checked, it was a $1.8 trillion market cap — it's hard to move your needle. He thought this could.' Stotz then drew a powerful comparison to China's Tencent. 'How did Tencent become Asia's most valuable corporation, a trillion dollar peak market cap? You had WeChat in the middle, the messenger, and then all the FinTech applications around it,' he explained. 'Your bank account, you have yield, and then the gaming as well.' With Telegram now reaching one billion monthly users, Stotz said the goal is simple: integrate TON and capture a third of that audience. 'The first billion is the hardest in my experience. So 2 billion, 3 billion — that's the goal,' he said. 'If we can succeed in that mission, we'll be the most widely used blockchain, maybe even ahead of Bitcoin… I don't think Ton might become more valuable than Bitcoin… but I think after Bitcoin, I think the number two spot is for grabs, and we're coming for it.' Sign in to access your portfolio
