Ratan Tata tweets a warm welcome for Air India

NEW DELHI: “Welcome Back, Air India,” said Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata minutes after the salt-to-steel conglomerate was chosen as the successful bidder for Air India, the airline which Bharat Ratna JRD Tata had founded in early 1930s but was nationalised in 1953.

Ratan Tata tweeted an old photograph of JRD getting down from an Air India aircraft and said, “On an emotional note, Air India, under the leadership of Mr JRD Tata had, at one time, gained the reputation of being one of the most prestigious airlines in the world. Tatas will have the opportunity of regaining the image and reputation it enjoyed in earlier years. Mr JRD Tata would have been overjoyed if he was in our midst today.”