Air India pays October flying allowances to pilots

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 constitutes between 50-80 per cent of a pilot’s salary.

“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 told PTI. Details about the amount paid as allowances could not be immediately ascertained.