Turbulence at Vistara is its own doing
Hundreds of cancelled and delayed flights cannot really be pinned on ‘unavailability of crew’. Rather, it is a chronic shortage of pilots as well as sloppy training and HR practices at the Tata-SIA airline that is to blame.
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