Post Centre’s guarantee, Air India pays November allowances to 1600 pilots

Cash-strapped Air India on Friday paid flying allowance for November to its around 1,600 pilots, a source said days after a section of them sought immediate payment of the pending amounts.

Flying allowance, which constitutes between 50-80 per cent of a pilots’ salary, is generally paid in the first week of a succeeding month.

“The airline has paid us our flying allowance for the month of November. As per norms, they should have been paid in the first week of this month,” a pilot told PTI.

Details about the amount paid as allowances could not be immediately ascertained.