1. Indian Airline industry-introduction, definition and overview about this industry.
2. Trade unions in Airline Industry- Explaining everything about unionism. How trade unions are formed? Rules/laws related to trade unions in Indian airline industry.
3. Collective Bargaining- How collective bargaining takes place in this industry. Rules/laws related to this collective bargaining in this industry.
4. Machinery for Settlement of Industrial Disputes
5. Workers’ Participation in Management
6. Grievance Redressal System
7. Discipline Handling
8. Labour Laws
9. Some two examples of strikes/disputes that has been happened recently in this industry and discussing IR issues in them.
Sumedh: Take 1,3,5,7, one example.
Prasad: take 2,4,6,8, one example
Dead line: 27th feb 2014.
Indian airline
History
Industry structure
Industry definition
Indian Airline Industry
The history of Indian Airline goes back to 1910 when the young Maharaja of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh sends his Chief Engineer to Europe for a study with orders to buy three planes, including a Bleriot monoplane and Farman biplanes, which arrive in the Punjab later that year.
The first commercial flight starts on February 18, 1911 when Henry Piquate, flayed a Humber Biaplane to carry mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, six miles away. The thing actually started in 1927 when Imperial Airways extends empire routes to India, connecting India with outside world. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. In 1932 for JRD Tata launches first scheduled airline, Tata Airline, by piloting the first flight himself from Karachi to Mumbai via single Ahmedabad on single engine. It was a start of airline transmission in Indian history. In 1945 Deccan airways India’s second domestic airline was formed by Nizam of Hyderabad by owning 71% stake by