MUMBAI: After Air India and Jet Airways, now Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has been delaying its pilots’ salaries. The last salary DGCA paid its flight operations inspectors was over two months ago for November. Since then, neither have the inspectors received any word from DGCA on when the December and January salaries will be paid, nor have they been told about the reason for delay.
DGCA Flight Standard Directorate has around 75 pilots on contract, as flight operations inspectors (FOI). During the recent US government shutdown, non-payment of salaries to Transportation Safety Administration officials and air traffic controllers had raised concerns of air safety. “It’s not that bad. But morale is very low. Office talk often veers towards unpaid EMIs, breaking fixed deposits, etc,’’ a source said. Other DGCA staff, who are central government employees, have been receiving salaries on time.
