Tatas rejig Air India top deck, restore salary partially
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran has recast the management structure at Air India and partially restored some of the salary cuts that employees were subjected to due to the pandemic when the airline was under the central government. Tata Sons took control of Air India on January 27 this year.
Chandrasekaran appointed new executives for finance, human resources, technology and customer service to reinvigorate the Maharaja’s operations even as he is yet to appoint a CEO. He has tapped talent from other Tata companies to handle the key portfolios at Air India. Simultaneously, the current AI team — captain R S Sandhu, Vinod Hejmadi, Meenakshi Mallik and Amrita Sharan — have been demoted to executive roles from board positions.
Following the changes, AI has just three board members (Chandrasekaran as chairman and two independent directors in HUL MD Sanjiv Mehta and former GIC chairperson Alice Vaidyan). Tata Sons will be expanding the AI board in the days to come.
