Civil Aviation Ministry 'seeks' Rs 3,500 cr to strengthen Air India

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PTI: New Delhi, Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 at 1128 hrs IST

With an urgent need to strengthen Air India and develop aviation infrastructure across the country, the Civil Aviation Ministry is understood to have sought an allocation of Rs 3,500 crore in the upcoming budget. This would be in addition to Rs 5,000 crore due from the current year, comprising ....Read more

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KR | Sunday , 20 Jan '13 15:11:12 PMReply | Forward

Air India and its Express, with its pathetic record of poor customer service on and off the flight, government should sell it so it gets revamped and all non customer friendly personnel (probably all) need to be retired irrespective of age.

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Guruji | Sunday , 20 Jan '13 14:38:40 PMReply | Forward

Sir, Air India is something that cannot be salvaged,when there are efficient capable private players to do that work how can GOI back nurturing an ailing Air India. Pilots are fudging their simulator training schedules/logs and here GOI is trying to invest money in training and what not. Hidden agenda: The Ministers n bureaucrats the first among equalsfear the loss of their privileges,special treatments meted out to them at Air India which will not be possible in a private Airline that's the reason they want to nurture this animal at taxpayers expense so that they can live the Maharaja style.