Hindustan Times
I don’t really blame Air India’s pilots for last week’s strike. I don’t blame the civil aviation ministry. I don’t blame Praful Patel. And I don’t even blame the Air India management which tried to slash the remuneration paid to pilots. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7:53 am
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Air India, Air India management, Morarji Desai, Praful Patel
Perhaps by the time you read this, good sense will have prevailed. But as things stand now, there is no doubt that the owners of India’s private airlines are nuts. Their threat to suspend all services for a day on August 18 is plain crazy. It brings back memories of the era before the private aviation boom when we were all utterly dependent on Indian Airlines and thus subject to lightening strikes by pilots, traffic assistants, baggage handlers and the like. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Air India, baggage handlers, government policy, Indian airlines, Kingfisher, lightening strikes by pilots, Malaysia and Thailand, private airlines, Singapore, traffic assistants
