Air India pays November allowances to around 1,600 pilots after employees demand payment

MUMBAI: Cash-strapped Air India on Friday paid flying allowance for October to its around 1,600 pilots, a source said days after a section of them sought immediate payment of the pending amounts.

Flying allowance, which constitutes between 50-80 per cent of a pilots’ salary, is generally paid in the first week of a succeeding month.

“The airline has paid us our flying allowance for the month of October. As per norms, they should have been paid in the first week of this month,” a pilot said.