New Delhi: The pilots of Air India have several pending issues with the airline like continuing pay cut and flying some very old planes. They have now warned of an exodus of pilots from AI unless these issues are resolved at the earliest.
An official of the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines now AI Domestic) said that large number of pilots have already quit in the past two years and that many more are serving their notice periods. "The biggest issue is of pay cut that refuses to go away and the fact that AI still operates 26-year-old Airbus A320s," said an ICPA office-bearer.
ICPA general secretary Praveen Keerthi has now told Director General of Civil Aviation M Sathiyavathy that the increasing frustration among AI pilots could affect safety. "We wonder how you have ignored the stressful working conditions and plight of our pilots, cabin crew, engineers and all other employees due to non-payment of full salary and allowances for the last almost 32 months, when you were very prompt in this aspect in regard of Kingfisher and SpiceJet employees.
01/04/15 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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An official of the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines now AI Domestic) said that large number of pilots have already quit in the past two years and that many more are serving their notice periods. "The biggest issue is of pay cut that refuses to go away and the fact that AI still operates 26-year-old Airbus A320s," said an ICPA office-bearer.
ICPA general secretary Praveen Keerthi has now told Director General of Civil Aviation M Sathiyavathy that the increasing frustration among AI pilots could affect safety. "We wonder how you have ignored the stressful working conditions and plight of our pilots, cabin crew, engineers and all other employees due to non-payment of full salary and allowances for the last almost 32 months, when you were very prompt in this aspect in regard of Kingfisher and SpiceJet employees.
01/04/15 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
