ब्रवादो ऑफ़ प्राइवेट airlines

PRIVATE AIRLINES THREATENING TO STRIKE FOR ONE DAY:

I get the nagging feeling that the whole thing has been orchestrated beautifully.

Media hype even on mundane matters is nothing new. Here high personalities are involved, And since it is about air travel, all middle class and rich people would not miss a programme on such a development. Hence higher TRP for TV reporting on the development.
As usual TV commentators sensationalized the whole matter making it as if a disaster is to happen. Actually a one day strike is not going to affect much traveling public. People would change the dates of traveling. Please remember the strike announced is only for a day. Meetings would be postponed. These happen when flights are cancelled or delayed unduly due to inclement weather or some other reason. It is pure hype to say that airlines are holding the traveling public to ransom as one TV channel did.
Air India losing money is due to inefficiency and mismanagement but private airlines losing money is on account of high taxation, that is the sum substance of the TV story.
As usual the Minister decried the proposed move. ( It looked like a repeat of unions threatening to strike, management and union leader privately coming to an understanding, Union leader telling the management that the understanding would be formally discussed and settled after the workers go for a strike for a day so that the Union can claim that it is the strike which forced the hand of management ).
Naturally Air India management and staff are gleefully watching the developments. If the private airlines get some relief, then Air India can easily get a bigger relief.
The Unions are going to holler hereafter that when managements can get what they wanted by threatening to go on strike then what is wrong with Unions adopting the same tactic. In particular the unions of Airlines are going to quote this incident whenever they want to go a strike.
Will the Government call the bluff of the airline managements. It can. But it would not. Is the reason that traveling public would be affected. That would be a laugh.