- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
India is considering selling state-owned Air India in parts to make it attractive to potential buyers, as it reviews options to divest the loss-making flagship carrier, several government officials familiar with the situation said. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet gave the go-ahead last month for the government to try to sell the airline, after successive governments spent billions of dollars in recent years to keep the airline going. Air India – founded in the 1930s and known to generations of Indians for its Maharajah mascot – is saddled with a debt burden of $8.5 billion and a bloated cost structure. The government has injected $3.6 billion…
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