Sunday, February 15, 2015

AVAILABILITY OF NONAVAILABILITY

Availability of Nonavailability

Perhaps air India is the only Airlines in the world where Availability of "NONAVAILABILITY"is more.

Delay of 10 hrs of AI 302 to Sydney where we boast volumes and being the official career of Cricket World Cup,AI could not carry Indian cricket fans to Sydney & they could not witness the historic win of India over Pakistan where India beat Pakistan by 76 runs. This time The Simple reason of delay was NON AVAILABILITY OF C/CREW.

On several occasins A/C delay also due  NON AVAILABILTY OF Cockpit Crew.

Our OTP down to only 58.8% lowest among the Indian career but AI is going to punish/cut the salary of employees for their own mismanagement of their highly qualified managers. As of date comparatively we are No.3 in passenger carrying after Jet Airways but one can see the pax que in morning hrs by 3 to 6 AM where pax bee line even up to entry/exit gate and finally it looks like a Indian Railway ticket counter where even for a confirm passengers; getting a B/Pass is an uphill task, when he gets his Boarding pass it is like winning a battle. The only reason of this huge mess is that NONAVAILABILITY OF STAFF at counters.In morning only 6 out of 12 counters are operational.This gives a very bad experience to our pax & affect OTP but it is whose failure? Is that employee who was artificially unavailable to the counter,a real shortage or a total mismanagement.

Aircraft is delayed of NON AVAILABILITY OF WHEELS though large number of wheels are either in transit or W/O are not made in time due various reasons are a beautiful example of mismanagement. How to blame and made accountable to the management is a million dollar question though the company is loosing million of dollar every day.

NONAVAILABILITY OF SPARES is another reason where our aircrafts are grounded everyday at one or another airport out of base but hardly any specific plan is being worked out to identify spares,their procurement and positioning to the local stores.

The dirtiest & snag wrapped cabin of our aircraft are supervised by top level management in the organization which is simply due "NONAVAILABILITY" of Cabin technician.Most often 18 aircrafts in Night are being maintained by ONE TECH with no Foreman.

Above are few but before we go further it can be only said that Airline is slowly and slowly being cast under the shadow of NONAVAILABILITY SYNDROME and being contagious where each and every functional departments are under influence of this except its BABUs who are hardly available but they are overworked by NONWORKING.

Unless serious diagnosis of this syndrome is done before it become chronic it's(Airline's) affairs are in real mess and will worsen faster.

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