Air India pilots ask: ‘3.5% salary cut for bosses and 60% for us, how is this justified?’

In a letter to Air India chairman and managing director Rajiv Bansal, the pilots has expressed unwillingness to take the proposed pay cut. Describing the pay cut as ‘hilarious’, the Air India pilots wrote, “The proposed cut for the pilots is almost 60% of gross emoluments… the top management has proposed a meager 3.5% cut on its own gross salary.”

“For e.g. the Director Personnel takes a minuscule cut of 4% on gross pay while a Co-pilot, who is paid less than the market, is given a cut of 60%. How is this justified? Doesn’t this amount to unchecked greed and selfishness?” the Air India pilots said in their letter to the Rajiv Bansal.

The salary cut has been proposed at a a time when they have not received 70% of their salaries since April this year, the pilots wrote.