All hands on deck: How Tata companies help revamp Air India
NEW DELHI: Tata Sons has put its might behind resurrecting Air India (AI), which it had acquired earlier this year. Different group companies are using their core competence to revive the Maharaja in what is seen as the most challenging airline turnarounds in contemporary times. Taj Hotels’ flight catering arm TajSATS, for instance, has from Day One of AI’s homecoming this January been delivering improved onboard meals.
AI MD & CEO Campbell Wilson has now detailed the role being played by other Tata companies in the turnaround process of AI. “TajSATS is assisting very much in catering here. For crew accommodation, (there is) Indian Hotels Company (Taj). Tata Technologies has been helping design some of the obsolete or out-of-stock aircraft seat components or other components in aircraft (by) doing 3D design and manufacturing from scratch so that we can accelerate repair of seats,” Wilson (52), an aviation veteran from Tatas’ long-trusted airline partner Singapore Airlines (SIA), said.
