New Delhi: IndiGo is being used as a benchmark for getting Air India
back to black. Sources in the Ministry of Civil Aviation said today that
recent instructions to Air India on grounding older air hostesses and
improving on-time performance were given after a careful study of these
parameters at IndiGo. How is the age of air hostesses related to
profitability?
Well, these sources pointed out that older cabin crew "get slower" and this affects aircraft turnaround (time taken to get aircraft ready for next flight). "We looked at IndiGo. They have young crew and their turnaround time is 25 minutes whereas for Air India, this gets done in 45 minutes. We need to lower the age of crew to be able to bring in efficiencies," these sources said.
They said Air India's on-time performance is also impacted because it has to use older crew and clear instructions have been given that if need be, young crew should be hired afresh. They did not provide an estimate of how many air hostesses were over-aged and will consequently will have to re-deployed in ground functions.
To begin with, Air India has agreed to ground air hostesses 45 years and above though Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju wants the age to be lowered further to 35 years subsequently.
Read news in full 20/08/14 Sindhu Bhattacharya/First Post
Well, these sources pointed out that older cabin crew "get slower" and this affects aircraft turnaround (time taken to get aircraft ready for next flight). "We looked at IndiGo. They have young crew and their turnaround time is 25 minutes whereas for Air India, this gets done in 45 minutes. We need to lower the age of crew to be able to bring in efficiencies," these sources said.
They said Air India's on-time performance is also impacted because it has to use older crew and clear instructions have been given that if need be, young crew should be hired afresh. They did not provide an estimate of how many air hostesses were over-aged and will consequently will have to re-deployed in ground functions.
To begin with, Air India has agreed to ground air hostesses 45 years and above though Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju wants the age to be lowered further to 35 years subsequently.
Read news in full 20/08/14 Sindhu Bhattacharya/First Post
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