Air India pilots threaten to stop working if the airline fails to set up vaccination camps

NEW DELHI : Pilots of Air India Ltd have told the airline’s management that they will stop working if the company failed to set up vaccination camps across the country for its flying crew.

Many crew members of the airline have been diagnosed with coronavirus, are struggling to get oxygen cylinders and are left to fend for themselves for the hospitalization process, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the union of the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots and pilots of narrow body aircraft of the airline, said in a letter to the national carrier’s director (operations), Captain R.S. Sandhu on Tuesday.