Country's leading airlines Air India will offer free tickets to all its employees who wants to travel around the globe and country. Under the scheme called Passage Entitlement-Vacation Travel approximately 24,000 staff members will avail this facility. Top officers like functional directors and joint managing directors will get 24 free tickets each year, deputy general managers and above get 20  tickets.

Assistant General Managers and senior AGMs having less than 20 years of service can avail 12 tickets and those above 20 years can get 16. The remaining staffers, who have put in between one and 20 years of service, are entitled to eight free tickets and 12 for those beyond 20 years. With this new scheme Air India expects to incur a loss of Rs 3,900 crore this financial year and has a debt burden of Rs 35,000 crore.

This scheme is being introduced when Air India is already down down Rs 5,200 crore reported in 2012-13 and Rs 7,560 crore for the year 2011-12. Nobody knows why this scheme was initiated when the airlines is already into severe debts.