India, Feb. 5 -- In retrospect one could ask what came out of the nationalisation of Air India. After all, the Tata Group bestowed the airline to the nation with a unique identity, one that still exists today. Although the airline, as we know it now, is still a bloated, yet hollow shell of its former self. It has been used and abused by politicians and bureaucrats over the years with questionable purchases of aircraft and dubious lease agreements, let alone hiring employees more interested in politics and corruption. However, things have been brought back on track over the past few years with new aircraft, the membership of a global alliance and profitable new routes to the US and Europe. The creation of a low-cost operation in Air India ...