Why does Tata Group want Air India back?
After a long delay, the loss-making flag-carrier flies free of state ownership
J.R.D. TATA recalled it as his saddest day. In 1978 the illustrious Indian industrialist opened the newspaper to discover that the government had fired him as chairman of Air India, the airline he founded in 1932 and managed even after its nationalisation in 1953. He called his secretary to ask if the story of his sacking was true. She replied that his successor, a former air marshal, was already making himself comfortable in his chair.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The longest layover”
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