Jet Airways Chief Executive Officer Gary Kenneth Toomey has resigned—effective immediately—on Jan. 16, only seven months after joining India’s leading private carrier. Toomey, who was hired last June on a three-year contract, could not be immediately reached for comment. Ravishankar Gopalakrishnan, the chief financial officer of the airline, will be the “acting chief executive officer” until the board appoints a new chief, the airline says in a statement.

India may soon consider allowing international airlines to fly the Airbus A380 into the country, a move that could benefit the customers of the largest passenger aircraft in the world in the Indian civil aviation market. Both the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Civil Aviation Ministry are consulting all stakeholders, such as Indian carriers and airports, before making a final decision to allow entry of the jumbo aircraft into India.

NEW DELHI — India hopes to launch Chandrayaan-2, its second lunar exploration mission, with an indigenous rover and lander, aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) by 2017. The mission will be a totally Indian program, without any participation from frequent industrial partner Russia. “This time it will be an indigenous launch ... which intends to demonstrate our capability to soft-land on the lunar surface,” says K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).