Air India staff unions express happiness over Tata Sons winning bid for airline

Several employee unions of Air India on Friday expressed happiness over the carrier’s earlier owner Tata Sons winning the bid to acquire the national carrier. After a marathon disinvestment process, which was reinitiated in January last year, the government on Friday announced that Tata Sons’ winning bid of Rs 18,000 crore was higher than the reserve price of Rs 12,906 crore set by it.