Can airlines really be profitable if ALL THE AIRLINES: – BUY aircrafts from the same manufacturers – Land at the same airports (and pay the same charges) – Use the same airport infra – recruit from the same pool – have a union that will decide the salaries and the bonus – fly the same […]
Not very long back I was addressing a group of school teachers – in a big branded school. The school owners were worried about the government allowing foreign schools to come and operate in India – and naturally they were scared. When it came to my turn I asked the teachers: How many of you […]
I move in a completely different social setting….but nowadays I am meeting some people with such ideas too: 1. Best jobs in India are in the Government: Parents (and therefore their children) who believe that the best jobs in India. Funnily this comes from the basic insecurity that private sector hires and fires whimsically. 2. […]
If you are a honest manager in a PSU and you feel for the company and for the country, you better have good writing skills! That is the only way you can vent your feelings for Mr. Praful Patel, Mr. Murali Deora,…etc. these gentlemen have singularly tried (and somewhat succeeded) in killing Air India (Indian […]
A good question. Let us start at a very different place. Have you ever searched for tickets on the net? On many travel sites? Have you got DIFFERENT answers? Different prices? Have you noticed that many websites behave like Indian Airlines (Air India?) does not exist? And in many places they are CHEAPER than the […]
The net has made life easy – you can find everything on Google, buy everything on eBay, pay for everything by using ‘Easy-pay’. And if you do not know how to do it, go to Google and ask ‘how to buy ….well..er a spaceship’ or ‘how to have a heart surgery’..of course for the more […]
Today we will se how the other (vociferous!) distributors will react: These are the smaller distributors who were getting 2% (atleast) to about 4% as marketing fee. However this money was coming from the client – and many clients did not know about it. However many distributors were giving all their ‘income’ back to the […]