Air India unions tell management not to interrupt rest period of pilots
New Delhi: Air India’s pilot unions, Indian Pilots’ Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), which last week rejected a partial roll back of their salary-cuts, on Monday informed the airline’s management that the pilots wouldn’t accept last moment changes in their flight duties that could impact their rest period.
“We will henceforth not be able to accept any change in the Weekly off once it is printed on CMS Roster. We are directing our members accordingly to ‘Maintain CMS Printed Off’s”, both unions wrote in a joint letter to the airline’s director (operations), Captain RS Sandhu.
In their letter, the unions stated that weekly offs and rest periods of pilots were being Interrupted ‘with incessant phone calls and emails to undertake COVID tests or accept changes to their printed program.’
