Air India starts vacating offices from govt properties

Agencies
Jammu, Sep 9
The Air India Group has started vacating its offices, which are currently being operated from government-owned properties, from this
month, as part of its strategy to consolidate workspaces across the country.
The loss-making Air India and its international budget arm Air India Express were taken over by the Tata Group on January 27 this
year, after successfully winning the bid for the airline on October 8, last year.
Besides these two airlines, Tata Group also holds a majority 51 per cent stake in Vistara, its joint venture airline with Singapore
Airlines (SIA), and a 83.67 per cent stake in budget carrier, AirAsia India.
Air India, Air India Express and AirAsia India will be housed jointly in a modern office campus in the National Capital Region by March
next year, in line with this consolidation strategy, which is being undertaken to improve collaboration and more easily deploy new
technology, among others, according to a statement.
Air India has its largest base of staff located in Airlines House, Safdarjung Complex, GSD Complex and IGI Terminal One in New
Delhi.
Staff working from these locations will move to an interim office space in Gurugram, before ultimately relocating to a campus at the
newly-constructed Vatika One-on-One campus in early 2023, it said.
Besides Air India, the Vatika One-on-One campus is being provisioned to accommodate Air India Express and AirAsia India, and the
establishment of group-level functions for better capability, effectiveness and economies of scale across the airlines, as per the
statement.
The transition to the interim facility in NCR is being undertaken during the course of September, Air India said, adding that besides
providing last-mile connectivity to the office premises from the closest public transport stations for ease of travel, flexible work hours are
also being offered to employees.