{"id":378980,"date":"2020-10-17T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378980"},"modified":"2020-10-17T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:18:47","slug":"covid-impact-ai-reduces-monthly-salary-bills-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-impact-ai-reduces-monthly-salary-bills-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID impact: AI reduces monthly salary bills by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India has reduced its salary bill by more than 50% to Rs 120 crore a month since April in an attempt to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit the aviation sector particularly hard.<\/p>\n<p>The struggling national carrier\u2019s salary bill was about Rs 230 crore per month till April. \u201cThe reduction has come through various initiatives carried out by the airline. These initiatives will continue till normal operations resume,\u201d said an Air India official, who did not wish to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Air India managed to reduce its salary bill drastically through up to 15% pay cuts of employees, reduction in flying allowance to pilots and removal of people on contract after retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India has reduced its salary bill by more than 50% to Rs 120 crore a month since April in an attempt to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit the aviation sector particularly hard. The struggling national carrier\u2019s salary bill was about Rs 230 crore per month till April. \u201cThe reduction has come through various initiatives carried out by the airline. These initiatives will continue till normal operations resume,\u201d said an Air India official, who did not wish to be identified. Officials said Air India managed to reduce its salary bill drastically through up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378980","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}