Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Dr Mahesh Sharma informed the Rajya Sabha today that Air India has taken various cost cutting measures, which are as follows:
1. Route rationalization of erstwhile AI & IA routes and elimination of route network involving parallel operations
2. Rationalization of certain loss making routes
3. Phasing out of old fleet and consequential reduction in maintenance cost.
4. Freezing of employment in non-operational areas
5. Enhanced utilization of new fleet resulting in production of higher ASKMs
6. Closure of overseas offline offices at certain locations
7. Introduction of PSS (Passenger Service System) to have single code and SAP ERP based solutions throughout the organization in terms of increase in revenue and decrease in Cost
8. Plans to Operationalize Subsidiary Companies such as AIATSL and AIESL and transfer of manpower and equipment to these subsidiary companies
1. Route rationalization of erstwhile AI & IA routes and elimination of route network involving parallel operations
2. Rationalization of certain loss making routes
3. Phasing out of old fleet and consequential reduction in maintenance cost.
4. Freezing of employment in non-operational areas
5. Enhanced utilization of new fleet resulting in production of higher ASKMs
6. Closure of overseas offline offices at certain locations
7. Introduction of PSS (Passenger Service System) to have single code and SAP ERP based solutions throughout the organization in terms of increase in revenue and decrease in Cost
8. Plans to Operationalize Subsidiary Companies such as AIATSL and AIESL and transfer of manpower and equipment to these subsidiary companies
