The sacking had a deep impact on the morale of Air India employees. The MD resigned, and the cabin crew and officers’ associations protested. London’s Daily Telegraph dated February 27, 1978 carried the headline “Unpaid Air India Chief Is Sacked by Desai”.
Dhanbad: Rich tributes were paid to Bharat Ratna JRD Tata by officials, employees and others living in the vicinity of Jharia division of Tata Steel o.
India News: In this excerpt, the author writes about how the founder of the airline was a stickler for rules and cleanliness and how his singular attention to the
But above all, it has been a story of middle-class India finally flying high and of aspirational Indians taking their first flights, something they could not even have dreamt of when the 21st century came calling.
Singapore Airlines, currently one of the best airlines in the world, will become a partial owner of Air India, the airline which once inspired and helped the former in formulating the launch plan. Popularly known as Maharaja, Air India was Singapore Airlines' role model when the carrier commenced operations in 1972.
According to reports, a delegation of Air India was sent by India's former prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru to Singapore on request, at a time when the nation was making efforts to attract investment and was planning to launch an international airline.
JRD Tata was appointed as the Director of the country's largest bank - Imperial Bank of India (now State Bank of India or SBI). At that time, the policy of the bank was that 50 per cent of all officers would be recruited from the UK/Europe.
Remembering Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata a.k.a JRD Tata on his 118th birth anniversary and his achievements as India's aviation pioneer and the first pilot to fly an Air India plane.