{"id":303565,"date":"2019-11-30T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303565"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:24:15","slug":"hardeep-singh-puris-statement-on-air-india-privatisation-highly-damaging-employees-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hardeep-singh-puris-statement-on-air-india-privatisation-highly-damaging-employees-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardeep Singh Puri\u2019s statement on Air India privatisation \u2018highly damaging\u2019: Employees\u2019 union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri\u2019s recent statement in Rajya Sabha that Air India will have to be closed down if not privatised is \u201chighly damaging\u201d and will have \u201cmassive financial implications\u201d for the national carrier, an employees\u2019 union said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild said \u201cComing from the civil aviation minister\u2026this statement is highly damaging, uncalled for at this stage and has massive financial implications for Air India, as our passengers will start cancelling their flight bookings and\/or prospective passengers refrain from booking seats on AI flights from March 2020 or even before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri\u2019s recent statement in Rajya Sabha that Air India will have to be closed down if not privatised is \u201chighly damaging\u201d and will have \u201cmassive financial implications\u201d for the national carrier, an employees\u2019 union said on Thursday. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild said \u201cComing from the civil aviation minister\u2026this statement is highly damaging, uncalled for at this stage and has massive financial implications for Air India, as our passengers will start cancelling their flight bookings and\/or prospective passengers refrain from booking seats on AI flights from March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}