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aakarki THAI kuda top airline....indian airlines em rank? brahmilaugh.gif

Air India is doing good. Aah prafool patil gadu chesadanta..idiot
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When Patel took over as Minister of State for Civil Aviation in 2004, the domestic carrier (then Indian Airlines) was market leader with a 42 percnet share, but slipping. Today, it is No 5 - behind Jet, Kingfisher, IndiGo and SpiceJet. (the failure of Kingfisher, troubles at Jet, and a government bailout have since helped Air India up the league, to No 2 behind IndiGo again, but airline is not out of the woods yet).
Here's how Praful Patel did it - ruin Air India that is.
First, load it with debt so high that it can never raise its head again. It is now clear the Air India's financial problems began in 2004 when Praful Patel chaired a meeting of the board after which the airline suddenly inflated its order for new aircraft from 28 to 68 without a revenue plan or even a route-map for deploying the aircraft, says an India Today report. An airline with revenues of Rs 7,000 crore was being asked to take on a debt of Rs 50,000 crore (including pre-existing debt).
Second, Patel presented a merger of Air India with Indian Airlines as the panacea for all ills. It is surprising how often ministers suggest mergers when public sector companies head for ruin. When telecom company MTNL was sliding, then Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran was suggesting a merger with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. That didn't happen, but both MTNL and BSNL are in the sick bay anyway. Praful Patel used the losses of Air India and Indian Airlines to push for their merger, claiming there would be cost savings from synergies. Worldwide, mergers usually destroy value. The Air India-IA merger has been the biggest man-made disaster in aviation history - thanks to their varying cultures and employee costs.
Said Gustav Baldauf, former COO of Air India who fell foul of Patel's successor and had to quit: "The management never resolved the pending human resource (HR) issues related to the merger. I had warned the Chairman-cum-Managing Director and the Aviation Ministry of the consequences of introducing a single code without resolving issues first. But they never listened," he told Mid-Day.
Third, Patel seemed to be batting as much for Air India's rivals. He handed over lucrative routes to private players. Though Air India had no birthright to every lucrative route, Patel's overnight manoeuvres in this regard suggested that he had a clear conflict of interest by being both Aviation Minister and board member in Air India.
A Tehelka report quotes Capt Mohan Ranganathan, an aviation expert, as saying that the airline handed over "flying rights on lucrative sectors in the Gulf to foreign airlines, including Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, Air Asia, Singapore Airlines and several others..." One glaring instance of a sudden handover could not have come without Patel's nod. Tehelka says that in October 2009, the airline sent "letters...to its stations in Kozhikode, Doha and Bahrain stating that it was withdrawing operations on the route" - a route in which the airline was making money hand over fist. Very soon, Jet and Etihad stepped in to fill the gaps, and so did Emirates.

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Em sesaadu

Doha Qatar emirate etihad..ivanni vunde routes lo okappudu air India Indian airlines vellevi..

Every day flights vundevi via gulf..

Praful patil discontinue chesadu aa routes ni..making way for etihad, Emirates and Singapore airlines..

Avi manaki full profit ichina routes..
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Doha Qatar emirate etihad..ivanni vunde routes lo okappudu air India Indian airlines vellevi..

Every day flights vundevi via gulf..

Praful patil discontinue chesadu aa routes ni..making way for etihad, Emirates and Singapore airlines..

Avi manaki full profit ichina routes..


Neeku inni vishyalu ela thelsu bhayya?
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Team Network Captain

Internet kummutadu anukunta dude office lo


Cag reports chadivanu..

Natural curiosity vuntudhi kada..anni airlines lo mana Indians vunnapudu air India enduku losses loki vellindhi..ilanti ministers lanchalu tini..

Kalanidhi maran

Raja

Praful patil

Veelu mugguru around 3 lakh crore revenue poyindhi
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