Mumbai: Air India, the state-owned lumbering, loss-making behemoth with 26,000 staff, is to be transformed into a slender company of just 5,000 employees in just a few months' time, following a business restructuring exercise that is vigorously under way to turn the airline around.
The urgency on the part of the civil aviation ministry to revamp the airline into a lean and mean flying outfit is evident from its already having selected CEOs for the two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Air India that will absorb the rest of the staff.
The two subsidiaries are Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) and Air India Engineering Services limited (AIESL). Formed in 2004 and 2005, respectively, they were mothballed away for various reasons, but are now going to be immediately operationalised.
The first will be responsible for ground handling and will accommodate 12,000 of Air India's staff including airport, ramp-side and cargo workers; the second will function as a maintenance repair and overall (MRO) unit and absorb 9,000 engineers, mechanics and technicians from Air India.
14/10/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
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The urgency on the part of the civil aviation ministry to revamp the airline into a lean and mean flying outfit is evident from its already having selected CEOs for the two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Air India that will absorb the rest of the staff.
The two subsidiaries are Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) and Air India Engineering Services limited (AIESL). Formed in 2004 and 2005, respectively, they were mothballed away for various reasons, but are now going to be immediately operationalised.
The first will be responsible for ground handling and will accommodate 12,000 of Air India's staff including airport, ramp-side and cargo workers; the second will function as a maintenance repair and overall (MRO) unit and absorb 9,000 engineers, mechanics and technicians from Air India.
14/10/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
