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OPEN LETTER – FROM INDIGO PILOTS, CREW & GROUND STAFF
The recent mass disruptions were not just an operational failure — they were a failure of planning and frontline protection.
Across airports, it was employees who faced passenger anger, public blame, and personal abuse, while strategic decisions remained distant from their consequences.
The timing, scale, and pattern of cancellations aligned exactly with the new regulatory deadline, making it impossible to ignore what is visible to everyone on the ground:-
operational collapse was allowed to escalate in a way that exerted pressure on the government for extension/relaxation.
Whether intentional or tolerated, the outcome was the same:
frontline staff became leverage in a regulatory standoff.
We did not design rosters.
We did not freeze hiring.
We did not delay preparedness.
Yet we carried the entire public cost.
We ask for:
• Public ownership of planning failure
• Clear exoneration of frontline staff
• Transparency on whether regulatory pressure formed part of strategy
• Assurance this will never be repeated
An airline runs on people, not just plans.
Trust, once used as leverage, is hard to rebuild.
— Pilots, Crew & Ground Staff
(FWD as recieved )
@MoCA_GoI@DGCAIndia@RamMNK@mohol_murlidhar@PMOIndia@IndiGo6E@TimesNow@republic@ndtv@IndiaToday@CNNnews18@CNBCTV18News@NDTVProfitIndia@NewsX
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Question: “How can you find out if someone works at McKinsey by talking to them?”
Answer: “Don’t worry. They’ll tell you right away. Twice. Ten times. You’ll lose count eventually.”
Four consecutive non-Indian meals and you will travel to the other end of the town to have Indian food.
I have given up this pretence of culinary adventures, I am not Anthony bourdain, nobody is paying me to try out exotic food, train my taste buds, acquire new tastes at the wrong side of 30s. Pls give me my daal roti after I tasted your bread and salad for 2 days.
@kushalwrites Bhai! I found your view interesting since it's balanced and resonates, contrary to the popular emotional response.
Corporate governance is a critical aspect that deserves attention and scrutiny, particularly in India. It's indeed essential to separate emotions from facts.
@nickgraynews@Ishansharma7390 Forget the trolling.. Indian hotels are a million times better looking, better service, better hospitality, better beds, better cleanliness and better food.
Listen people,
India is a country with 80% Hindu population. When 80% want that you people should write the owner (proprietership) name in front of shops, you will write it.
You wanna live by your rules, go to Pakistan.
No ifs and buts.
In case you were wondering, the flight attendants absolutely do not enforce any of that 'stow your laptops, do not charge' rules on takeoff for the business-class customers, only cattle class.
And that's quite a statement on discriminatory law enforcement in our society.
@GabbbarSingh Or just parathe. Or poha. Takes years of travel to realize that its always best to have simple stuff, quantity same as one eats everyday for breakfast. Stuffing ourself to the hilt in b/fast buffets is the most horrible thing we do in travels!
A 2015 McKinsey study was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more diversity on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them.
There are obvious benefits to diverse leadership, but the McKinsey study was fundamentally flawed- a number of folks have tried to replicate the study and haven’t been able to do so.
As someone who worked in consulting in my 20s, I can say that a lot of times the partner “knew” what the answer should be and we had to find data to make the case.
I assume that’s the case here. McKinsey released their methodology but not the companies used in their study. They did acknowledge an obvious flaw in their methodology- giving credit for past profits when a board became diverse at the end of the period… meaning more profitable companies add diversity to their boards rather than the other way around. This is such a glaring error that it’s hard to imagine a McKinsey consultant making it unintentionally.
FWIW- in replications, others have found that diversity is neither good nor bad for profits. McKinsey suggested that diverse teams had a ~40% higher likelihood higher than average profit margins.
Article is worth a read. Btw the takeaway should not be that diversity is bad- what McKinsey gives as reasons in its paper sound reasonable: “more diverse companies are better able to win top talent, and improve their customer orientation, employee satisfaction, and decision-making, leading to a virtuous cycle of increasing returns”
My takeaway is more - how can you take any consulting study seriously? Those of us who worked in consulting don’t, because we remember working on these studies!
My wife - once a 21-year old liberal arts major who worked at McKinsey says “you should always be skeptical of any complicated model that might’ve been made by a 21 year old liberal arts major!”
Boeing used to be a great company dominated by engineers. The people at the top were engineers as the their core foundation and education.
The downfall of the company began a few decades ago when the leadership was captured by finance guys. The current CEO has a degree in accounting.
Ever since then, Boeing has been in a slow decline.