NEW DELHI: An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, aging female flight attendants and canceled flights at the airline. 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 canceled 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 criticized 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.

A two-month strike last year by its pilots further dented the image of the so-called “Maharajah” of the skies. 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.”