Pilots’ associations have expressed their displeasure over the functioning of crew management system (CMS) and day operations (DOPS) with the Air India management, saying that while they are extending cooperation due to shortage of flying staff, it shouldn’t be misconstrued as their “weakness”.
In a letter to the airline’s Executive Director, Operations, T.P.S. Dhaliwal, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association and Indian Pilots Guild has flagged a number of issues related to their punishing schedules and work fatigue.
“Since the Air India management, in its wisdom, is paying pilots on actual flying hours, the responsibility lies with the operator to distribute the amount of work, especially fatigue inducing duties, equally amongst available flight crew,” they said in the letter.
