Air India pilots have written to the airline management and the civil aviation ministry, flagging off concerns about the poor quality of personal protective equipment and paucity of sanitisers available on the aircraft.
Air India evacuated Indian citizens from China and Italy and will be operating repatriation flights for German citizens to Frankfurt in this week.
“Our pilots and cabin crew are being provided substandard, ill-fitting and flimsy personal protective equipment (PPE) that tear/disintegrate easily on rescue flights. Sanitisers are not provided in sufficient quantities and disinfection processes are short of industry best practices .These inadequacies compound the chances of viral exposure and equipment contamination,” Air India’s executive pilots association wrote to civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday.
