Air India is playing by rules it makes up as it goes along.
India's permanently redlined airline, saddled with the most liberal dole system of free domestic and international tickets to over 24,000 working and roughly 20,000 retired employees and their families, has now taken the bizarre decision to allow the children of these employees to inherit the right to free tickets even after the employee has passed away.
According to a memorandum issued by Air India's executive director (Personnel) dated April 11, 2014: "The spouse of a deceased employee can transfer his/her passages to his/her family members (of the deceased employee) as per the definition of family provided for in passage regulations i.e. self, parents and children, stepchildren and legally adopted children."
It further states "that a total of four passages only out of the total entitlement can be transferred to brothers/ sisters/ son-in-law/ daughter-in-law." The entitlement of retired deputy MDs has been enhanced to that of functional directors.
The memorandum says: "This issues with the approval of CMD (Rohit Nandan). The copy has also been moved to CMD and other senior officials.'' Air India spokesperson Prasada Rao confirmed that.
"Any order or memorandum is issued only after the airline board members take a decision on a matter concerned," he said.
There is, however, some cloudiness over veracity of the April 11 order (see accompanying report 'Fake or Not?'). The loss-making airline has an army of 24,000 permanent employees, one of the highest amongst airlines worldwide when it comes to aircraft-workforce ratio.
The decision to shower the inheritance bonanza on Air India staffers comes at a time when the airline is saddled with a whopping cumulative loss of Rs33,200 crore as on March 31, 2013.
Read news in full 28/05/14 Sanjay Singh/Mail Online India
India's permanently redlined airline, saddled with the most liberal dole system of free domestic and international tickets to over 24,000 working and roughly 20,000 retired employees and their families, has now taken the bizarre decision to allow the children of these employees to inherit the right to free tickets even after the employee has passed away.
According to a memorandum issued by Air India's executive director (Personnel) dated April 11, 2014: "The spouse of a deceased employee can transfer his/her passages to his/her family members (of the deceased employee) as per the definition of family provided for in passage regulations i.e. self, parents and children, stepchildren and legally adopted children."
It further states "that a total of four passages only out of the total entitlement can be transferred to brothers/ sisters/ son-in-law/ daughter-in-law." The entitlement of retired deputy MDs has been enhanced to that of functional directors.
The memorandum says: "This issues with the approval of CMD (Rohit Nandan). The copy has also been moved to CMD and other senior officials.'' Air India spokesperson Prasada Rao confirmed that.
"Any order or memorandum is issued only after the airline board members take a decision on a matter concerned," he said.
There is, however, some cloudiness over veracity of the April 11 order (see accompanying report 'Fake or Not?'). The loss-making airline has an army of 24,000 permanent employees, one of the highest amongst airlines worldwide when it comes to aircraft-workforce ratio.
The decision to shower the inheritance bonanza on Air India staffers comes at a time when the airline is saddled with a whopping cumulative loss of Rs33,200 crore as on March 31, 2013.
Read news in full 28/05/14 Sanjay Singh/Mail Online India
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