Could be another can-of-worms about to be opened. The CMD (Chairman, Managing Director) of NACIL (parent of AI and AIX), prior to the present one, has been implicated in a scam over ex-pat salaries. Looks like he has been taking thousands of USD per month per ex-pat captain, as the difference between the sums billed to AI and those actually paid to each captain (we are talking serious money here, over the time span this has been happening and the hundreds of ex-pats involved). Maybe he should have spent a little more time overseeing Air India Express (before he was fired by the Minister), rather than time supervising his personal foreign bank account?