About one-third of Air India’s current workforce of about 17,830 employees has been hired during the last two years, its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson said on Friday.In a message to employees, Wilson stated that the airline has hired 3,800 flying staff (pilots and cabin crew members) and 1,950 non-flying staff till March this year as part of the airline’s transformation plan called ‘Vihaan.AI’.
He also mentioned that more than 14,800 employees, or about 83 per cent of the airline’s total workforce, has been “covered under training initiatives” till March 2024. The Tata Group took control of Air India in January 2022.