The headquarters of the merged entity Air India Express (AIX) will be housed in the same complex at Gurugram as that of Air India. To enable this, the original headquarters of Air India Express (pre-merger) in Kochi and Air Asia India in Bengaluru are being shut down along with the small corporate offices of the (formerly) two airlines in Mumbai.
While the merger and restructuring of the integrated airline have been in the works for a while, employees of both airlines were stumped last week by an e-mail that announced the relocation of most non-operational staff across Bengaluru, Kochi and Mumbai by December.
