Two years on, AI-IA staff integration fails to take off

New Delhi: National Aviation Company Ltd (Nacil), the entity formed by the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, has failed to keep up to its promise — it is yet to provide equal access to a large part of the 30,000 employees under its fold.
Two-and-a-half years after the merger, the public sector aviation company has been able to integrate only 300 of the 30,000 employees. The plan was to complete the integration process within a year-and-a-half of the merger.
“Human resource (HR) integration has been done up to the deputy general manager (DGM) level and below that integration is under process,” said a senior Air India official, who did not want to be identified. “The number of employees up to the DGM level from top is only 300.”
The merger of the airline was cleared by the Empowered Group of Ministers on February 21, 2007, and by the Cabinet on March 1, 2007 and became effective from August 27, the same year.
Prior to the merger, Air India and Indian Airlines had different sets of HR rules for promotion, perks and work culture. “The promotion rules of the airlines are different. Since the merger, employees forming part of Air India have received promotions, while people belonging to Indian Airlines have not got any promotion,” the official added.
In erstwhile Air India, promotion was on the basis of seniority, whereas Indian Airlines promoted their staff on the basis of interviews.
Air India Chairman and Managing Director Arvind Jadhav had raised his concerns before the Committee on Public Undertakings.
27/03/10 Mihir Mishra/Business Standard

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