Air India will now be able to hire 800 additional cabin crew to meet the acute shortage that has been adversely affecting its operations and on-time performance, with the government clearing a proposal of the airline.
“The Civil Aviation Ministry has given its go-ahead to an Air India proposal to 800 hire more cabin crew as it has been facing an acute shortage of such staff,” official sources said on Monday.
The carrier has now begun conducting walk-in interviews across major cities to hire the additional crew, they said.Air India has currently over 2,500 cabin crew, including the executive officers, to man a fleet of 100 planes.