Thakiyudeen Abdul Wahid was an Indian entrepreneur and aviator. He was the Founder and Managing Director of the now-defunct East-West Airlines, the first scheduled private airline in the country. He was murdered on 13 November 1995.
Wahid was born in Odayam village at Edava near Trivandrum in Kerala on 28 December 1952. He had a modest educational background and studied till 9th grade. His father Abdul Wahid Musliar was a dried fish merchant and mother Salma Beevi a house wife.
He was a drop out from Sree Narayana College Kollam and began his Pravasi life through association with Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali (AMA Group) of Bahrain. He started a recruitment agency in 1980's for this entity in Bombay.
He began his business career with a travel agency with his brothers in Dadar, Mumbai to recruit manpower to Gulf countries. He started East-West Airlines in 1992 when the Indian Government reformed the airline industry by its "open skies policy". East-West Airlines commenced commercial operations on 28 February 1992.
The airline shut down its operations in 1996 after his death in 1995.
Wahid was shot dead on 13 November 1995 near his office in Mumbai.