Air India will start the process of shifting more than a third of its employees to a ground-handling joint venture with Singapore Airport Terminal Services on Friday to reduce its staff strength to comply with conditions for a turnaround plan amid opposition from two different unions as per a report in ET.
Some Air India employees at the Delhi Airport will move to the new entity from Friday, said a person with the direct knowledge of the matter. "By next week, people in Mumbai will also join the bandwagon," the person added.
Around 12,000 people will become part of the ground-handling joint venture, Air India Singapore Airport Terminal Services (AISATS), if the national carrier manages to successfully carry out the massive transfer of employees.
AISATS, which came into existence by starting operations in Bangalore in 2008, has now spread its wings to Hyderabad and New Delhi. The joint venture together employs around 300 people at Bangalore and Hyderabad international airports. Air India's MD Arvind Jadhav had recently stated that the joint venture would draw its manpower from the national carrier's mammoth workforce.
Meanwhile, the Group of Ministers (GoM), led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee , that is looking into national carrier Air India's problems will meet again on July 18 to discuss the airline's turnaround plan.
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