Operational Performance Of Air India

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF  CIVIL AVIATION

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-957

ANSWERED ON-22.03.2012

(a) the operational performance of Air India on parameters such as passenger revenues, cargo revenues, available seat
kilometres, revenue passenger kilometres and passenger load factor for Indian Airlines and Air India for post and pre
merger period since 2004; and

(b) the steps being taken by the Ministry to improve these parameters?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION ( SHRI AJIT SINGH )

(a): Requisite information is annnexed.

(b): In order to improve its operating and financial performance, Air India has taken various steps such as i) Complete route rationalization of erstwhile Air India and Indian Airlines routes and elimination of route network involving parallel operations; ii) Rationalization of certain loss making routes; iii) induction of brand new aircraft on several domestic & international routes to increase passengers appeal; iv) Phasing out of old fleet and consequential reduction in maintenance cost; v) Return of leased aircraft at the end of their tenure or prematurely; vi) Freezing of employment in non-operational areas; vii) Redeployment of staff to cut in-fructuous expenditure; viii) Grounding of ageing fleet including B747-400 which would be used only for certain lines of operations and for operating VVIP flights; ix) Relocation of EDs/IBOs from abroad back to India; x) Closure of overseas offline offices at certain locations; xi) Dismantling of the Frankfurt hub and establishement of the Delhi hub resulting in substantial saving due to restructuring of routes; xii) Establishment of Integrated Operations Control Centres.

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