An Air India's top official wrote a letter to Air India Assets Holding Limited over the continued deterioration of ground handling services by Air India Airport Services Limited (AIASL)
Airline says it will reskill employees as expands terms of the scheme
AIASL serves Air India at all airports except Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mangalore, and Thiruvananthapuram
Air India Express currently has 24 Boeing 737 planes in the fleet. It lost one plane in the Kozhikode plane crash in August 2020
The unions argue that the airline's letter asking employees to vacate office accommodation by July 26 amounts to a change in service condition.
Air India's dwindling market share is significant as the Tata-owned airline is reported to induct about 200 more planes in what is being billed as one of the largest aircraft orders in Indian aviation
This comes even as the full-service carrier rolled out a voluntary retirement scheme for its employees, including cabin crew
Tata-led Air India has seen its market share continuously decline since March as around 30 of its 113 aircraft have been grounded for varying periods
Since Air India is planning to expand its fleet size and by extension its flight operations and revenue, it is worth finding out the top airlines in several segments
Air India is looking to buy as many as 300 jets, which may be Airbus SE's A320neo family jets or Boeing Co.'s 737 Max models, or a mix of both
Former CEO of no-frills carrier Scoot visits Air India's Delhi office; will take charge formally after completion of formalities
India has decided to procure its maiden batch of wide-bodied A350 aircraft from Airbus and the first plane is likely to be delivered to the airline by March 2023
While Air India has zeroed in on Airbus's A350 wide-bodied aircraft for the procurement, the talks with Airbus and Boeing for narrow-bodied aircraft is still on, say aviation industry sources
The first aircraft is likely to be inducted by first half of 2023
At present, the Tata group owns and operates four airlines - Air India, Air India Express, AirAsia India, and Vistara. Air India and Vistara operate on both domestic and international routes
DGCA's spot checks found that Air India does not have a policy on denied boarding and is not paying any compensation to the passengers
The two combined entities will have a 15.7% share of India's domestic passenger market
Delhi's single-day Covid-19 infections breached the one thousand mark on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 6.50 per cent and two fatalities, according to data shared by the health department here.
The Modi government has earned twice as much from disinvestment as all previous governments combined have since 1991
Capacity expansion would be crucial in wake of increase in competition in domestic market, revival in international traffic