Air India Pilot Unions Seek Airline Chairman’s Intervention To Address Their Grievances – Outlook India

Air India’s pilot unions on Monday declared that working conditions are hostile at the airline company and looked for Tata group Chairman N Chandrasekaran’s intervention to fix the problems.

Tata group took control of loss-making Air India in January this year.

The 2 pilot unions– IPG and ICPA– declared that in spite of its unflinching assistance reached Air India in its development and growth strategy, the management has actually not reciprocated in the exact same way.

Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) represents the pilots flying wide-body airplane while Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) represents those running narrow-body airplanes.

“We want to draw your attention to the dishonest treatment vetted to the pilots at Air India that has actually left us entirely demoralised. (There are) hostile working conditions (and) pilots are daunted to accept flights with overall neglect to the Air India FDTL plan due to scarcity of pilots,” the unions stated in a joint letter to Chandrasekaran.

Chandrasekaran is likewise the Chairman of Air India.

There was no instant remark from the airline company on the problem.

Last week, the unions had actually flagged issues about lack of pilots and other problems.

In the letter on Monday, the unions stated that captain and commander-grade for pilots are long pending and promos are performed for other workers, which results in a loss of spend for the junior pilots.

“Absence of repaired flying allowance leads up to an 80 percent pay cut for pilots (who are) under training or license renewals by external firms,” the letter stated.

Further, the unions stated they have actually been obliged to take their complaints to the airline company Chairman as all their “sincerest efforts of interacting with the management at Air India have actually stopped working to stimulate any reaction”.

“For the last 9 months, our member pilots have actually kept aside their issues of health, tiredness, and work-life balance and flown well beyond their specified hours, just to be rejected their rightful overtime payment and fundamental minimum payment warranty that safeguards their regular monthly earnings while going through license renewals, visa, and airport pass procedures, training, illness,” they declared in the letter.

According to the unions, rejecting their neighborhood alone their complete pay and allowances for continuing on authorized leave produces a variation in between flying and non-flying staff members.

“We have actually offered the management every advantage of the doubt along with sufficient time to redress our concerns, however the duality of the management continues unabated … we prompt you to step in and stop this victimisation. In this, you are our last and particular hope,” the unions stated.

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