Ashwani Lohani

Air India privatisation: Over 11,000 staff of national carrier to get one-year job guarantee; govt says employees' interest to be protected

Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri also said that the government would secure a fair deal for all of Air India employees.

As PMO wants quick disinvestment of its subsidiaries, Air India asked to prepare FY19 financials

After a botched attempt to sell Air India in May last year, a panel led by Arun Jaitley had decided in June to scrap the stake-sale plan for the time being

Lenders explore ways to utilise 15 Jet Airways planes, protect valuable assets; proposals under consideration

Jet Airways owns 16 aircraft, including 10 wide-body Boeing 777-300 ERs, rest of the planes were on lease.

Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani likely to meet SBI chief over leasing of 5 wide-body Jet Airways planes

After the grounding of Jet Airways, Air India is the only domestic carrier now operating services on long haul and ultra-long haul routes

Air India may lease five of Jet Airways' grounded planes, plans to operate them to London, Dubai and Singapore

National carrier Air India is looking at leasing five of the grounded carrier Jet Airways Boeing 777s and operate them to London, Dubai and Singapore

Air India requests 'inactive' crew to join work immediately; airline has to reroute flights due to closure of Pakistan airspace

Inactive crew members are employees of Air India who are on any kind of leave be it casual, medical or privilege

'Sure, Air India will soon become profitable. Jai Hind': Twitterati, politicians et al react to airline's nationalist stance

The current directive of Air India has drawn sharp and humourous reactions from legislators and twitterati alike. One of the sharpest coming from former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti who says it was hardly surprising, considering the general elections taking place in a couple of weeks

Ashwani Lohani, ex-Railway Board head, appointed chairman of Air India; second stint as chief of national carrier

Ashwani Lohani's first tenure as chief in national carrier Air India was from August 2015 to August 2017

Ashwani Lohani to head cash-strapped Air India for second time within two years; will take charge tomorrow

The government on Wednesday called back the retired technocrat Ashwani Lohani to head the cash-strapped national carrier Air India as chairman and managing director for a second time within two years

Amid IndiGo's paid web check-in controversy, Indian Railways asks passengers to 'check-in' to 'good-old' trains

IndiGo, which has a domestic market share of nearly 43 percent, has been levying charges for web check-in from 14 November