SpiceJet pilots under pay-cut stress, safety hit, alleges ex-Capt; airline denies allegation

MUMBAI: The massive pay cut imposed by SpiceJet for the past eighteen months has put its pilots under tremendous financial stress which has turned the airline into a flying hazard, said a pilot who resigned from SpiceJet this year after nine years of service.

In a damning open letter sent to the Prime Minister and top civil aviation officials on Tuesday, Capt Vinodh Loganathan said that there have been instances of first officers and crew breaking down in the cockpit and so had to be consoled.

SpiceJet in a statement to TOI, strongly denied the allegation of flight safety hazard due to financial stress as “completely false,