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Sayonara Air India: Confessions of a frequent flyer

Time is running out; govt must move quickly before there are no takers left for airline

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Sandip Sen
Many years ago I was at a friend’s place for dinner. His wife who was working for Indian Airlines (this was before the merger) proudly took me to the kitchen where she showed me hundreds of cubes of jam and butter along with sachets of ketchup. She proudly told that she had one year’s stock of these. I remember saying to myself that an airline with a culture like this cannot last long.
 
The fact that it has survived, when many airlines in India and across the world have perished, is purely because of government largesse. Air India’s net