The Air India management on Tuesday accepted the resignation of chief training officer Stefan Sukumar, a day after chief operating officer Gustav Baldauf was made to resign.
AI Express COO Pawan Arora was also similarly made to resign a few weeks ago. With these exits (amid allegations of non-performance and exceptionally high salaries), all the ‘outsiders’ who had been recruited to turn around the ailing airline are now officially out. So where does it leave Air India?
Several theories are doing the rounds. According to some airline officials, AI chairman and MD Arvind Jadhav has been asked to look after the airline, as before.
Apparently, the ministry of civil aviation will now play a more active role than ever in running the airline, with several of the carrier’s important decisions expected to be taken by the aviation minister Vayalar Ravi himself, while Jadhav focuses on bringing the airline back to profitability.
Another version points to some insiders being promoted to look after day-to-day operations and the CMD remaining overall in-charge.
A S Soman is at present executive director (operations) whereas K M Unni is the executive director (engineering).
According to sources, Baldauf has handed over charge to Unni and Sukumar to Soman. An airline official pointed out that there are over 20 directors across several functions in the airline and there was no need to hire outsiders to run AI.
02/03/11 Indhu Bhattachary/Daily News & Analysis
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