Tag: Surjit Babra
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Toronto Sikh Surjit Babra donates 11 tons of food to Second Harvest charity
The founder of SkyLink Group marks the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak by making record-breaking food donation to feed the hungry TORONTO: Ludhiana-born Toronto businessman Surjit Babra, who made history by becoming the world’s first Sikh to start his own SkyLink airline in 1991, has now created a record in charity. To mark the…
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Surjit Babra: Toronto Sikh who built business empire in skies
Ludhiana-born dreamer created SkyLink Group of Companies in Canada By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: He was not even 21, but by then he had already straddled three continents – from Asia to Africa to Europe. A driven and clear-sighted young man, he had just one dream when he landed in London from Nairobi in the very…
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How Canadian businessman Surjit Babra became the world’s first Sikh to own an airline
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Ludhiana-born Surjit Babra doesn’t hold any MBA or business degrees, but he went on become the world’s first Sikh to start an airline in 1988. Gifted with extraordinary business acumen, Toronto-based Babra,65, turned his SkyLink Group into a multi-million-dollar conglomerate of SkyLink Aviation, SkyLink Travel, SkyLink Express, SkyLink Holidays and Dollar…
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Surjit Babra’s SkyLink Travel donates $10,000 to Passport to Freedom
Toronto-based Surjit Babra-led SkyLink Travel Group has donated $10,000 to Sabre’s Passport to Freedom, the company’s initiative to engage the travel industry to end human trafficking. SkyLink founder and chief executive officer Surjit Babra (right) presented a check to Jamie McNair, Sabre’s vice-president and general manager Canada & Western U.S. division this week. “Human trafficking…