Air services to be hit again?

New Delhi: Air passengers may be again at the receiving end. First there was the strike by AAI employees, which paralyzed air services for four days. Now the Air Corporations Employees Union (ACEU) has threatened to go on strike if their demands on wage revision are not met.
Employees of ACEU held a demonstration outside the civil aviation ministry headquarters here and declared they would go on protest from May 1. If their demands are still ignored, they have threatened to go on strike from May 8.
And if the unions are to be believed, the strike would not only affect flights of the national carrier, but the spill over will also hit other domestic and international airlines as well. The reason: Indian manages the ground-handling services for several airlines.
ACEU General Secretary Arun Kumar said that on the domestic front, Indian is responsible for the ground handling duties of Kingfisher Airlines. "On the international sector it looks after ground handling for Malaysia Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines, Tajikistan Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Sri Lankan Airlines, Qatar Airways, KLM and Ariana Air."
28/04/06 Nandini R Iyer/Hindustan Times

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