No Air India employee will lose job, assures government

NEW DELHI : The government on Wednesday said interests of employees of the state-owned carrier Air India would be protected and there would be no job loss till its privatisation.

Replying to a supplementary question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri also said that the government would secure a fair deal for all of its employees.

He also rejected recent reports suggesting that several pilots of Air India are leaving the airline as their salaries were not being paid on time.