Covid: Air India pilots refuse to fly unless vaccinated on priority

Air India pilots union – ICPA – has threatened to “stop work” if the airline fails to set up vaccination camps on a ‘Pan India’ basis for the flying crew.

In a letter to Air India’s Director of Operations R.S. Sandhu, ICPA said: “With no healthcare support to the flying crew, no insurance, and a massive opportunistic pay cut, we are in no position to continue risking the lives of our pilots without vaccination.”

“Our finances are already spread thin covering our bedridden colleagues and provisioning for families lest we inadvertently infect them with the deadly virus that is an ever-present occupational hazard for us.”