Summary Video shows pilot rapping about bad pay, ageing airhostesses and cancelled flights.
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Titled "Air India Rap", the homemade track starts with the pilot putting on his uniform before the start of his shift -- only to be told that the flight has been cancelled at the last minute.
The lyrics, set to a looping hip-hop soundtrack, are replete with expletives and take potshots at the airline s cabin crew.
Crew are often criticised by passengers for being rude and the managers are blamed for the airline s dismal reputation.
"How do I fly with women in their sixties. They call them air hostesses, we call them aunties," goes the lines penned by the pilot.
"People work here for a lifetime, they never retire, seeing old faces everyday gets my ass on fire," he sings in the video, which has garnered 44,011 views so far.
State-run Air India is the country s fourth-largest airline by market share.
But it has been hit hard by rising fuel prices and fierce competition which have added to its legacy of labour problems, crushing debts and a costly merger in 2007.
A two-month strike last year by its pilots further dented the image of the so-called "Maharajah" of the skies, which once enjoyed a dominant position.
The rapper pilot signs off with these lines: "I am gonna serve you Air India forever -- this ain t a lie -- coz I hope to see you get out of this mess before I die."
The song has left the top airline management hot under the collar.
"He works for us, yes," G.P. Rao, a spokesman for the airline, told AFP. "We are looking into the issue. The management will decide how to go about it."
The Times of India quoted a senior Air India manager as branding the song "an immature act", and adding that the airline would examine the pilot s record "before taking a final view" on whether to discipline him.
