Market conditions made Air India privatisation difficult: Jayant Sinha

Transforming Air India into world class airline is one of the objective of this government, says Jayant Sinha

The aviation ministry’s principal project of privatising Air India has not yielded any result. However, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha would not consider it as a failure and says that transformation of the airline is an ongoing process. In an interview with Arindam Majumder, he underlines the achievement of the government in four years saying that civil aviation has been success story in terms of political mileage. Edited excerpts:

Transforming Air India into world class airline is one of the objective of this government. It is also fairly clear that it cannot happen under government ownership. So