Airport employees threaten boycott over proposed privatization move

Lucknow: Agitated over the government's proposed move to privatise Lucknow airport, employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) have resorted to a strange way of protest. They greet the passengers flying to and from Lucknow airport with a pamphlet that decries the proposed privatization and describes how it would drill a hole in the flyers' pocket, raising the cost of flying up to 30%.
The employees quietly deploy themselves at the security hold area (SHA), the boarding area and the ticket counters and hand over flyers the one-page anti-privatisation pamphlet. "We have to make the passengers aware of the consequences of privatisation," president of Airports Authority of India employees union, Vivek Pandey, told TOI.
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