{"id":303628,"date":"2019-11-30T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T06:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303628"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T06:15:37","slug":"air-india-unions-say-hs-puris-airline-to-shut-down-if-not-privatised-statement-could-scare-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-unions-say-hs-puris-airline-to-shut-down-if-not-privatised-statement-could-scare-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India unions say HS Puri&#8217;s &#8216;airline to shut down if not privatised&#8217; statement could scare flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India unions have told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Union aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri\u2019s statement the airline will have to be shut down if not privatised, could damage the its commercial interests majorly and spark an exodus of the Maharaja\u2019s pilots and engineers.<br \/>\nIn a letter to PM Modi, the Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild have said: \u201c &#8230; this 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 Al fights from March 2020 or even before. thereby hurting AI\u2019s revenue earning prospects a big way, especially when Al has been showing good operational results over the last two\/three years.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMoreover, the statement will demoralise our well trained and experienced employees many of whom including pilots, engineers may quit Al and join other private airlines, thereby causing further distress and possible imminent disruption of AI\u2019s flight operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India unions have told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Union aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri\u2019s statement the airline will have to be shut down if not privatised, could damage the its commercial interests majorly and spark an exodus of the Maharaja\u2019s pilots and engineers. In a letter to PM Modi, the Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild have said: \u201c &#8230; this 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 Al fights from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303628","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}