The Airline for freeloading FAT CATS !
30% of all seats on its flights are occupied by staff and their families traveling free.
“This is an unprecedented crisis,” a government official told The Indian Express. “There has to be drastic route rationalisation and cost cutting. Allowances and perks of Air India employees will be re-examined, which may result in an across-the-board reduction in benefits.”
Air India has over 33,000 employees on its rolls, with another 20,000 as contractual labour. Its annual wage bill, as per latest records, stood at Rs 4,000 crore. There are a host of benefits for its employees, which includes complementary travel on Air India’s business class. “It is estimated that 30 per cent of Air India flights are filled with its employees,” the official claimed. "
The Airline always exploited the sentiments NRIs and Indians by pressing their nationalistic and patriotic buttons to survive the past 60 years, while in reality is is a huge parasite monster.
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