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AASL AIRLINE ALLIED SERVICES LIMITED AASL CONTENTS Page No. 1. Board of Directors 1 2. Directors’ Report 2 3. Comments of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India 26 4. Independent Auditors’ Report 28 5. Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2015 51 6. Statement of Profit & Loss for the year ended 31 March 2015 52 7. Cash Flow Statement 53 8. Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2015 54 AASL BOARD OF DIRECTORS (as on 28 DECEMBER 2015) Shri Ashwani Lohani Chairman Shri Vinod Hejmadi Director Shri Pankaj Srivastava Director Smt. Meenakshi Dua Director Capt Arvind Kathpalia Director Dr. (Smt.) Shefali Juneja Director Smt. Puja Jindal Director Chief Executive Officer Shri C.S. Subbiah Auditors M/s. Chandra Gupta & Associates Chartered Accountant E-103, Palm Court Apartments Plot No.-3, Sector-19-B, Dwarka New Delhi-110 075. Company Secretary Shri Gagan Batra Registered Office Old Lufthansa Hanger Building, (Adjacent to ED-NR Office) I.G.I. Airport, T-1, New Delhi-110 037 1 AASL DIRECTORS' REPORT 2014-15 The Shareholders, Airline Allied Services Limited. The Directors of your company have pleasure in presenting the Thirty Second Annual Report together with audited Statement of Accounts of Airline Allied Services Ltd. for the year ended 31st March 2015. During the year, the company incurred a net loss of Rs.183.92 crores (previous year Rs. 249.40 crores). Although the total revenue has decreased by Rs 14.44 crores, the total losses have also fallen due to decrease in operations. The decrease in losses can be attributed to the following reasons: § Passenger revenue decreased by Rs. 16.46 crores (Rs.178.09 crores against Rs.194.55 crores), due to lower passengers carriage by 0.054 million (0.310 million against 0.364 millions) and higher passenger yields by Rs. 401/- (Rs. 5746 against Rs. 5345). § Other income increased by Rs. 1.75 crores (approx) during the year 2014-15 due to : - Increase by Rs. 19.17 crores on account of VGF operations. - Decrease in sundry receipts by Rs. 17.42 crores on account of decrease in Sundry Receipts (Maintenance Reserve Refunds). § ATF cost decreased by Rs. 22.93 crores due to less operations and decrease in average ATF rate from Rs. 58149.36 to Rs. 51701.07 per Kl. § Decrease in provision for obsolescence of aircraft rotables, non-rotables & special tools by Rs. 7.07 crores due to redelivery of Aircraft and increase in the lease life of remaining Aircraft. Material consumed for Aircraft also decreased by Rs. 3.91 crores § Decrease in cost of repair of Aircraft, both, in-house and outside repairs by Rs. 61.16 crores during the year 2014-15. § Foreign exchange rate increased from Rs. 60.49 to Rs. 62.50 (closing rates) resulting in net foreign exchange loss of Rs. 0.68 Crores § Decrease in lease charges by Rs. 13.78 crores due to redelivery of Aircraft. § Decrease in Staff cost by Rs. 9.37 crores due to transfer of engineering staff to AIESL and decrease allowances & other payments of crew. § The amount of handling charges increased by Rs4.84 crores during the year. § Financial cost increased by Rs. 31.51 crores as Holding company debited a sum of Rs. 103.47 crores (previous year Rs. 71.96 crores) towards interest on the amount outstanding as on 31st March 2015. Financial and Physical Performance The Financial and Physical performance for the year under review vis-a-vis the previous year is given here under: 2 AASL Financial Performance (Rs. in Crs.) 2014-15 2013-14 Operating Revenue 179.93 196.74 Passenger Revenue (ATR & CRJ) 178.09 194.55 Other Operating Revenue 1.84 2.19 Other Income including VGF 48.02 45.65 Total Revenue 227.95 242.39 Total Expenses 411.87 491.79 Net Profit/(Loss) for the year Before Tax -183.92 (249.40) Net Profit/(Loss) for the year After Tax -183.92 (249.40) Share Capital 2.25 2.25 Physical Performance 2014-15 2013-14 ASKMs (in millions) 289.614 340.892 RPKMs (in millions) 197.916 249.576 Passengers Carried (in millions) 0.310 0.364 Seat Factor (%) 68.3 73.2 Load Factor (%) 58.5 61.6 Share Capital: Authorised Capital The Authorised Share Capital of the company as on 31-03-2015 is Rs. 500,00,00,000/-(Five Hundred Crores) divided into 500,00,000 (Five Crores) equity shares of Rs.100/- each. Issued, Subscribed and Paid-up Capital As on 31st March 2015, the Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Share Capital of the Company was Rs.2.25 crores divided into 225,000 fully paid up equity shares of Rs.100/- each. The entire Share Capital of the Company is held by Air India Limited, the holding company. Amounts transferred to Reserves The Board of the company has decided/proposed to carry Rs NIL to its reserves. Fleet Position The fleet position of the company as at the year end consisted of 10 leased aircraft was as under:- 3 AASL Aircraft Type No. of Aircraft Owner ATR-42-320 04 Leased from M/s Abric Leasing Ltd, Ireland Bombardier CRJ-700 04 Leased from different overseas lessors ATR 72-600 02 Leased from M/s AVAP Leasing (Asia) Ltd., Dublin, Ireland Network/ New Links As at the year end, the network of the company consisted of 25 domestic stations and has been operating around (ATR-42-36 +CRJ-94 & ATR-72-600-40 flights/ week) 170 flights per week. Technical Reliability Aircraft-wise Technical Reliability during the year 2014-15 was as under: a) ATR 72-600 99.44% b) ATR 42-320 99.24% c) CRJ-700 99.15% Aircraft Utilization Aircraft utilization during the year 2014-15 was as under: a) ATR 72-600 07:51BH b) ATR 42-320 07:40 BH c) CRJ-700 04:58 BH The company introduced services on the following new routes/additional flights during the year 2014-15:- New Flights / Links a) ATR-42-320 Aircraft § Delhi / Pantnagar / Delhi – 4 times/week w.e.f 14th October 2014. § More flights to North East reinstated under consultation with North Eastern Council w.e.f 1st August 2014. ATR flights were earlier withdrawn in January 2013 due to cessation of VGF receivable from North Eastern Council. § Kolkata/Guwahati /Lilabari & rtn -4 times/week w.e.f 01st August 2014 § Kolkata/Silchar /Tezpur & rtn -3 times/week w.e.f 01st August 2014 § Frequency increased to 6 times/week instead of 5 times/week on Kolkata/ Shilling / Kolkata w.e.f 01stAugust 2014. b) ATR-72 Aircraft § Delhi/ Rajkot / Delhi -6 times/week w.e.f 23rd February 2015 § Frequency increased to 7 times/week on Delhi/Rajkot/ Delhi w.e.f 18th March 2015 4 AASL c) CRJ Aircraft § Mumbai/ Bhuj/ Mumbai – 5 times/week w.e.f. 15th May 2014 § Frequency increased to 6 times/week instead of 3 times/week on Delhi/ Surat / Delhi w.e.f. 23rd February 2015 § Portblair / Car Nicobar / Portblair - 1 times/week charter operation with CRJ w.e.f 24th July 2014 Operation of flights with VGF support/Charters: During the year 2014-15, the following flights/routes continued to operate regularly under VGF support program with the respective State Governments/Government agencies. 1. Kochi/Agatti/Kochi with ATR-42 aircraft 6 times per week with support from Lakshadweep Administration. 2. With VGF support from North Eastern Council: a. Kolkata/Silchar/Tezpur & return 3 times per week with ATR-42 aircraft. b. Kolkata/Guwahati/Lilabari & return 4 times per week with ATR-42 aircraft c. Kolkata/Shillong/Kolkata 6 times per week with ATR-42 aircraft 3. Charter operations on Portblair/Car Nicobar/Portblair with CRJ aircraft once per week on behalf of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration commenced on 21st July 2014. The charters are operating regularly. Human Resources The staff strength of the company at the close of the year was 664(938) including 17 (23) employees on deputation from the parent Company, Air India. Out of above, services of 474 (532) employees were seconded to Air India. Therefore, effectively, the Company had 190(406) employees at the close of the year for in its own operations. All the employees of the Company are on fixed term contract basis. Out of the 664 contractual employees, 334 (50.30%) were female employees. Cadre-wise, as on 31st March, 2015, there were 59 Pilots, 401 cabin crew and remaining 204 were other categories of employees. The Company has been supplementing cabin crew and other manpower as required by Air India. AASL had deployed 474 staff (356 cabin crew, 24 Operations, 08 VHF Operator, 57 Ground & Other Commercial &29 Security Attendants) till 31st March 2015 on deputation to Air India. AASL had transferred 165 staff (97 Licensed Engineers/AME/Dy. AME/Dy. Engineer & 68 Sr. Tech-1/1A, Technicians-I/II) to MRO, AIESL as on 1st January, 2015 & 40 (29 Licensed Engineers/AME/Dy. AME/Dy. Engineer & 11 Sr. Tech-1/1A, Technicians-I/II) deputed from AIESL to AASL as on 1st January, 2015. Since the Company could not develop in-house expertise in the field, it had recruited 3 employees on contract who were superannuated from AIL, by virtue of their knowledge and long experience to handle some key positions, to satisfy/meet the regulatory requirements. As on 31st March 2015, there were total 8 expatriate, out of which (7) expatriate commanders on ATR and 1 ex- patriate commander on CRJ Line Captain. Out of these 7, 4 are Training Captain.