Government directs Air India,
to hire800 cabin crew
NEW DELHI: Aviation secretary
V Somasundaran has
directed Air India to
immediately hire 800 cabin
crew members. The directive
comes as AI has been facing
serious flight delays caused, among other
reasons, by a crippling cabin crew shortage.
"The secretary recently directed us to start
hiring, cabin crew. We will now follow the IT
industry example where we will have an ample
number of air hostesses, all of whom may not
fly at the same time. They would be benched
like
the IT industry and called in to fly when
needed. The cost of flight delays due to a
shortage of cabin crew is way higher than the
expenditure incurred on hiring more," a senior
AI official said.
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