Air India to meet unions over privatisation on Monday

MUMBAI: Air India management has called a meeting of its trade unions on Monday to discuss the proposed privatisation, which they have been opposed to and term as fraught with “disastrous” consequences, a source said on Friday.

The meeting has been called at the airline’s headquarters in New Delhi, the source said.

The development comes amid the government mulling to issue a preliminary information memorandum (PIM) early next month, which will lay the road map for its exit from the core aviation business.

“Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani has called a meeting of all trade unions, including of the pilots, engineers and officers on Monday in New Delhi to discuss the issue of privatisation,” the source privy to the information told.