NEW DELHI: Twenty-three senior most Air India (AI) commanders have sought no objection certificates from the airline to quit. <\/p>\n
They have done so over the management’s continued failure to have pay parity between pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines (IA) and Air India even eight years after the two airlines were merged. <\/p>\n
A letter signed by 23 executive pilots from erstwhile IA, who fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, has been sent to the aviation ministry and AI’s outgoing CMD Rohit Nandan protesting huge difference in pay with pilots who fly the same aircraft. <\/p>\n
Sources say there are about 70 pilots from IA operating the Dreamliner and most of them are in the same state of mind. <\/p>\n
An IA commander of the Dreamliner gets about Rs 3.5 lakh a month while his or her AI counterpart gets Rs 6.5 lakh for the same job. <\/p>\n
“We perform the same duties as our counterparts in AI.Even AI first officers (co-pilots) earn more than us, which is extremely humiliating and demeaning,” the letter says. <\/p>\n
“We are under tremendous strain. This level of frustration and agony is not healthy and will certainly lead to a serious mishap.” They have warned the management to come out with a non-discriminatory policy or grant them NOCs “We will be forced to look for greener pastures and that will be not out of choice but (due to AI’s) utter disregard of looking into genuine grievances of honest and hard working employees,” the letter said. <\/p>\n
Successive AI CMDs and aviation ministers have been assuring implementation of pay parity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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