The Tata Group is planning to relocate its three out of four airlines to one common office in Gurugram by March 2023
The Tata Group has begun executing its strategy of bringing its different airlines together by deciding to move Air India, Air India Express, and AirAsia India under one canopy. Ever since the partnership took control of Air India and Air India Express in January this year, there has been speculation about some kind of merger of its various airline businesses. Combining the workspaces of three of its carriers is likely the first step in that direction.
The most extensive base of staff, located in Delhi’s Airlines House, Safdarjung Complex, GSD Complex, and IGI Terminal One, will move to a temporary office space in Gurugram, National Central Region (NCR), before finally relocating to campus at the newly-constructed Vatika One-On-One development in early 2023, added the statement.
The regionalized community structure of Air India will also be separated and will be replaced with a centralized one, the airline said. The airline also added. “This will allow consolidation of presently-dispersed teams, co-location of managers with their teams, and physical adjacency of related functions,” The fourth airline in the Tata stable, Vistara, is presently discovered around 10 km away from Vatika One on One at Intellion Edge.
“It may only be a matter of time before Vistara also gets moved to Vatika One on One,” an industry expert said.
The Tata Group reacquired Air India and Air India Express in Jan 2022 under a government-led strategic divestment program. AirAsia India is a joint venture between Tata Sons and AirAsia Investment Limited (Malaysia) with the former holding an 83.67% stake in the airline and the latter at a 16.33% stake. In an endeavor toward more remarkable synergy among Tata group airlines, Air India had proposed to formulate the fundamental shareholding of the Tata group in AirAsia India in April. The Competition Commission of India approved the proposal in June.
