THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Air India has invited applications for around 305 vacancies in its wholly-owned subsidiary Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) for carrying out ground handling (GH) activities at Cochin International Airport Ltd. (CIAL). The recruitment is in keeping with the Turn Around Plan (TAP) and Financial Restructuring Plan to infuse funds into Air India, which was approved by the AI Board in March 2011 and cleared by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs in April 2012. AIATSL was formed in 2003 and started functioning at the Trivandrum Airport in 2004. However, Air India, contrary to the airline's Turn Around Plan, hived off its ground handling at Trivandrum International Airport to Air India SATS Airport Services Private Limited (AISATS) in May 2012 (with retrospective date of April 1, 2012) and around 10 of its employees transferred to Kochi AIATSL.
"Currently, Air India's GH team is facing stiff competition from other GH agencies such as WFS, which has eaten into our market share. They managed to take a few airlines from us such as Qatar Airways, Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways in 2009. We need to upgrade our performance levels and our services," said a senior AI official.
AI's GH team currently handles Air India Express flights, AI (narrow and wide-body aircrafts), Saudi Airlines, Air Asia, Emirates and Silk Air. Around 700 staff from two outsourced agencies - Airawat Aviation and Immanuel Aviation & Cargo Services Pvt Ltd - are engaged in GH activities at Kochi for AI. The national carrier also has around 130 GH employees of its own, including those who have been transferred from Air India Charters Limited to AIATSL, when the TAP was operationalized.
Applications advertised on the AI career webpage says candidates chosen to perform ground duties at Kochi Airport will be offered a fixed-term contract for a period of three years, for the following posts: Senior Customer Agent, Senior Ramp Service Agent, Customer Agent, Junior Customer Agent, Ramp Service Agent and Ramp Service Agent (LG), Utility Agent-cum-Ramp Driver.
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"Currently, Air India's GH team is facing stiff competition from other GH agencies such as WFS, which has eaten into our market share. They managed to take a few airlines from us such as Qatar Airways, Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways in 2009. We need to upgrade our performance levels and our services," said a senior AI official.
AI's GH team currently handles Air India Express flights, AI (narrow and wide-body aircrafts), Saudi Airlines, Air Asia, Emirates and Silk Air. Around 700 staff from two outsourced agencies - Airawat Aviation and Immanuel Aviation & Cargo Services Pvt Ltd - are engaged in GH activities at Kochi for AI. The national carrier also has around 130 GH employees of its own, including those who have been transferred from Air India Charters Limited to AIATSL, when the TAP was operationalized.
Applications advertised on the AI career webpage says candidates chosen to perform ground duties at Kochi Airport will be offered a fixed-term contract for a period of three years, for the following posts: Senior Customer Agent, Senior Ramp Service Agent, Customer Agent, Junior Customer Agent, Ramp Service Agent and Ramp Service Agent (LG), Utility Agent-cum-Ramp Driver.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/20130505/thiruvananthapuram/39042181_1_air-india-express-kuwait-airways-qatar-airways
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