Mr. Le Song Lai.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Song Lai, deputy general director of the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC), has become the new general director of the first low-cost airline in Vietnam, Jetstar Pacific Airlines, as of today, November 11.

Former general director Luong Hoai Nam handed over the job to the new chief on November 10. Lai is also deputy general director of SCIC, which holds over 70 percent of the shares of Jetstar Pacific.

The new boss of Jetstar Pacific will face many difficulties following the Transport Ministry recently requesting the airline to not use the logo of Australia’s Jetstar airline. This airline was also recently accused of using aircraft unsafely.

Lai was born in 1968 and has a master’s degree in law from Hanoi-based National University and the Cambridge University in the UK. He also has university diplomas in finance-banking and foreign language.

Lai was appointed as SCIC’s deputy general director in August 2006. From November 2003 to August 2006 he was the vice chief of the Insurance Department of the Finance Ministry.

He was trainee lawyer at the Freshfields Law Company (UK), Hanoi branch. He is now a member of the management board of the Bao Minh JS company and the National Reinsurance Corporation.

PV 

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