It is already a revitalised Air India that is taking to the UAE-India routes

It is already a revitalised Air India that is taking to the UAE-India routes

Dubai: It’s all in the name. Just weeks after Air India was officially taken over by the conglomerate Tata Sons, travelers seem to have already given their vote of confidence that, this time, things will indeed change for the better at the airline. “Traditionally, flying with the Middle East carriers has been seen as a status symbol, and that was damaging for Indian operators,” said Mark Martin, CEO of Martin Consulting. “Now you have got an Air India that wants to be at par with UAE airlines in terms of product quality. There are some good times ahead for Indian expats” In these few weeks, the new Tata management has shown that it will not run the airline like a government enterprise. This could be observed from the quite unexpected appointment of ex-Turkish Airlines chairman “A month before the takeover, they had an entire team of executives who went and looked into every vertical at Air India so that change can happen starting Day One,” said an industry source. “There’s a lot being done behind the scenes – it’s not going to be a sarkari airline at all.” Air India, along with its low-cost subsidiary Air India Express, has sizeable