NEW DELHI: Pilots aren\u2019t the only ones leaving fund-starved Air India, given the uncertainty surrounding the airline\u2019s future. Aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) \u2014 who keep planes airworthy \u2014 are also quitting. AI Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) recently asked those doing so just after completing their training to refund the cost of training, other expenses incurred on them as well as salary received during training period.
\nWhile a query has been sent to AI on how many AMEs AIESL currently has and how many engineers have quit in past few months and a reply is awaited, the scale of the issue can be gauged from an order issued by the airline\u2019s engineering arm four months back.
\n\u201cIt has been observed that AIESL AMEs (permanent, as well as recruited through walk in interview process) are resigning from the organisation, after receiving aircraft training without completing their stipulated bond period. All such AMEs would be required to refund the cost of training, hotel expenses, TA\/DA, salary for the training period and opportunity cost of training to AIESL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Pilots aren\u2019t the only ones leaving fund-starved Air India, given the uncertainty surrounding the airline\u2019s future. Aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) \u2014 who keep planes airworthy \u2014 are also quitting. AI Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) recently asked those doing so just after completing their training to refund the cost of training, other expenses incurred on them as well as salary received during training period. While a query has been sent to AI on how many AMEs AIESL currently has and how many engineers have quit in past few months and a reply is awaited, the scale of the issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}