Tata Sons is evaluating plans to set up an Air India ground-handling services company that will not only meet the airline’s burgeoning in-house needs, but also look at offering shared services to other carriers. Such plans may also include possibly bidding for the erstwhile state-run carrier’s ground-handling entity, Air India Air Transport Services (AIASL), which has been put on the block by the government. Before the government sold Air India, it hived off its business units such as ground handling to an entity called the Air India Assets Holding.
