Air India sale: Tata Group looking at bid to fly the bird it founded 87 years ago back home

The Tata Group, which founded Air India 87 years ago and was then forced to relinquish control, said it will look at bidding for the airline put up for sale by the government.

“I will ask the team to evaluate it,” Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran told TOI in the course of an interview about his plans for the group as well as his recently-released book, Bridgital Nation. “Ideally it should be a Vistara decision, not a Tata Sons decision,” Chandrasekaran said before adding, “I’m not going to run a third airline (in addition to Vistara and AirAsia). Unless we merge. There are issues. I will never say yes or no. I don’t know.”