NEW DELHI: The wives of Air India (AI) pilots who lost their lives after contracting the Covid virus in line of duty have formed a joint forum to seek adequate compensation and alternative employment for themselves.
The “Widows Forum for Justice” has written to AI management, expressing anguish that they are eligible for Rs 10 lakh as ad-hoc Covid death compensation — “an amount which in normal circumstances would have been less than two months earnings of their average net (salary).”
In contrast, IndiGo covers a deceased pilot to the sum of Rs 5 crore.
Employees, including pilots, of several Indian carriers have lost their lives to Covid. A senior AI pilot said the airline has lost five pilots to the dreaded virus.
