PTI
Mumbai, May 25: Air India is toying with the idea of hiring as cabin-crew, some of those laid-off by Jet Airways, as it would save time and costs on training. "AI has plans to hire cabin-crew. However, instead of recruiting freshers and then spending time and money on training them, we are mulling recruiting some of those laid-off by Jet," a source said. The AI management believes this move will help in considerable savings in both time and costs, besides fast-forwarding the recruitment process, the source added.
He declined to reveal the number of personnel the national air-carrier plans to take on board. Jet Airways recently laid-off some of its cabin-crew. A cabin-crew personnel, on joining, is imparted three months training on different aspects of the industry before being put on flying duty.