Five-member body set up to suggest AI revival steps
Though the panel has been given two months to submit report, it has been told to give interim recommendations without waiting for its final report so that these could be implemented by Air India immediately, an official spokesperson said.
With improvement in Air India's performance in recent months, the airline is likely to end this financial year with a positive cash flow or Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) positive. Ebitda is an approximate measure of a company's operating cash flow.
Expressing concern over the projected net shortfall of R404 crore a month, the minister had recently asked Air India to cut redundant costs and optimally utilise its resources to meet the annual financial projections envisaged in the financial restructuring plan (FRP).
Other members of the committee are Prabhat Kumar, joint secretary in the ministry, Rajesh Agrawal, the director finance of ICRISAT, S Mukherjee, former director commercial and inflight services of Air India and Nasir Ali, Joint MD of the airline. It would go into the expenses, identify loopholes in the company's existing structure and functioning leading
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