{"id":354722,"date":"2020-06-01T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354722"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:55:11","slug":"wont-operate-non-essential-flights-if-distasteful-treatment-is-not-stopped-ais-pilot-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wont-operate-non-essential-flights-if-distasteful-treatment-is-not-stopped-ais-pilot-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t operate non-essential flights if &#8220;distasteful&#8221; treatment is not stopped: AI&#8217;s pilot union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Alleging &#8220;harassment&#8221; of cockpit crew by health officials at Delhi airport, national carrier Air India&#8217;s Airbus fleet pilots&#8217; body ICPA on Sunday warned that its members will not operate any flight other than the essential services if such &#8220;distasteful&#8221; treatment meted out to them is not stopped.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Air India Executive Director (Operations) R S Sandhu, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), which represents over 700 members, has also sought clarity on the protocol that is to be followed in case a pilot operating Vande Bharat Mission or domestic flights is tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Air India has been operating special evacuation flights to transport stranded Indian nationals from abroad in the wake of pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Alleging &#8220;harassment&#8221; of cockpit crew by health officials at Delhi airport, national carrier Air India&#8217;s Airbus fleet pilots&#8217; body ICPA on Sunday warned that its members will not operate any flight other than the essential services if such &#8220;distasteful&#8221; treatment meted out to them is not stopped. In a letter to Air India Executive Director (Operations) R S Sandhu, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), which represents over 700 members, has also sought clarity on the protocol that is to be followed in case a pilot operating Vande Bharat Mission or domestic flights is tested positive for COVID-19. Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354722","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}