Background
Naresh Goyal was born in Sangrur - Punjab, northern India in 1949 in the house of a jewellery dealer situated at Nabha Gate.
Naresh Goyal was born in Sangrur - Punjab, northern India in 1949 in the house of a jewellery dealer situated at Nabha Gate.
Some of his friends who studied with him were Satinder Fatta,Devinder Singh Mansahiaand Vikramjit Singh IAS.
Naresh Goyal was involved in developing studies of traffic patterns, route structures, and operational economics and flight scheduling. His rich and varied experience made him an authority in the world of aviation and travel. In 1991, when the Indian economy was being opened up, Naresh Goyal took advantage of Open Skies Policy of the Government of India and set up Jet Airways for the operation of scheduled air services on domestic sectors in India. Jet Airways started commercial operations on May 05, 1993. In May 1993, Goyal founded Jet Airways (Private) Limited with the objective of providing sales and marketing representation to foreign airlines in India. In 2005, Jet Airways came up with an IPO and it was a huge success. Following the bad times in the airline industry in the second half of 2008, Naresh Goyal joined hands with his prominent rival Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines in October 2008.