Everybody knows who the killer of Air India are. It is no mystery at all. Although the airline was always weakened by a swollen workforce and an overbearing trade union, these factors were not insurmountable. Workforce trimming combined with infusion of new technology, can take care of these. Secondly, as proven recently, quality service and on time performance is also well within AI's reach. Anyone who has traveled foreign airlines would realize that Air India service is not bad at all. And today its on time performance is far better than all Chinese airlines for example.
So, who killed Air India? It was the result of a deliberate (and quite open) conspiracy by successive civil aviation ministers since 1999, who sold it down the river to emerging gulf based carriers primarily Emirates. Gulf sector was the life and blood of Air India and also the source of its major revenue stream. Our Hon. ministers actively connived with Emirates to limit AI in this sector. Emirates was allowed to have a free run on this immensely lucrative route in return for handsome payouts. Today the Part 2 of this drama is unfolding, with Abu Dhabi based Etihad as the new player. This would prove to be the last nail in Air India's coffin.
Air India Story as made out by Jitendra Bhar gava does not pack any thrill and suspense to warrant detection by French Detective Hercule Poirot or British Detecive Sherlock Holms.When the murder is in the open in full view of Public by the Corrupt elements in the Govt,the question of detection does not arise.
When we talk about Air India today, effectively we are talking about two airlines; Air India and Indian Airlines.
This matter should be analysed in broken parts for better clarity.
One: There is a time factor i.e. before and after liberalisation.
Two: Air India and Indian Airlines separately.
The reason is even before liberalisation, Air India operated in near open market competition vying for business against competing foreign airlines though the element of competition was restricted through various arrangements; nevertheless, Air India operated in a competitive environment.
In those pre-liberalisation days, Indian Airlines operated with full protection. And this protection didnt help Indian Airlines as many a common man misunderstands it. Indian Airlines had to operate to keep the nation together by running highly discounted and subsidised fares in the North East and in some other parts, which no private airline would not have done.
Who killed AI&IA?
To me it is the compulsion of coalition politics. Most of the times, it is the smaller ally like NCP who wanted the Ministry of Civil Aviation so that they can destroy the national carrier at the behest of Jet and others who funded the party. Congress has to keep quiet as it needed its support. In case of NDA it is far worse. The main party BJP itself wanted funds from competitors so they willingly killed the national carrier.
Entire electronic and print media was bought out by competitors and then went on criticisi
Re: PRIVATE SECTOR CAPITALISTS & THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES KILLE
by himachal darisi on Oct 14, 2013 12:49 PM
I WONDER THE NECESSITY OF GOVT. GETTING INVOLVED IN CIVILIAN-AIRLINE BUSINESS. IT IS BETTER IT GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS TO PRIVATE-SECTOR, WHO ARE OFFERING BETTER-SERIVCE AND VALUE FOR MONEY TO CUSTOMER. In fact, private sector has to Constitutional obligations like RESERVATIONS, which is bleeding the A.I. coupled with inefficiency.
Re: Re: PRIVATE SECTOR CAPITALISTS & THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES K
by Kabeer on Oct 14, 2013 01:35 PM
Well, then there won't any other airline who will carry your grandma on a stretcher which occupies three seats' area at the cost of a single seat.
There wont be any airline that flies to North East at concessional rates so you can forget that the entire North East will secede by 2020.
Moreover, if there was a crisis in the Middle East or Africa no airline will airlift your workers there free of cost or at concessional rates. All your Indian workers will let die in places like Amman in Jordan as it happened some time ago. But for Air India none of them would have survived today except those few punjabis whom the then Prime Minister brought with him in his PM aircraft.
lines, private mobile operators and transport operators would have failed as India Postal service, AirIndia/IndianAIrlines, BSNL and State transport would have done lot better job.
Most of PSU killed by their senior staff because their feeling that they are only paid staff of the organization and they know they would get salary until death whether they should work or not another example are MTNL / BSNL .Until the thinking of the PSU unit change or accountability were fix .
I dont think any analysis is required on any govt entities or functions..it is plain and simple corruption. Analysis is for cases where there was an intent to succeed and if failed...in this case it was purely about milking people's tax money as long it last...and move to next such thing and on and on
Same explanation can be given for other PSU like ITI HMT adding some more like lack of R&D and changre of goal post of Socialism to Profit earnig from PSU , throwing it before beast of MNCs without any safe guard in name of globalisation liberalization etc.
