Air India is looking for directors for its personnel, commercial and finance divisions who will also be serving as board members. Internal candidates are preferred who are more than 56 years of old, and adverts states that minimum qualification is relaxable if the candidate is of “sound and adequate background and experience”.
The airline’s financial strife has resulted in heated board meetings with cat fights being reported between independent directors, functional directors and government nominees over these appointments and ultimately, three of the four officials were forced to resign. Since then, several top level positions in Air India have been lying vacant.
Apart from the three director level positions, vacancies also exist for chief operating officers at low cost subsidiary Air India Express as well as for Alliance Air.