Pilots of the national carrier Air India have threatened \u2018industrial action\u2019 if their salaries are not restored substantially.<\/p>\n
In a letter to the airline CMD Rajiv Bansal the pilots\u2019 union – Indian Pilots\u2019s Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association – have threatened to go on strike protesting an over 50% cut in their salaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have given the management every benefit of doubt as well as ample time to redress the issue of disproportionate pay cut for pilots of Air India and its subsidiaries so there is no point left in mincing words. If we do not see a timely substantial reduction in this disproportionate pay cut, we will be forced to seek justice through harsher means including \u201cIndustrial Action\u201d,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n
Pilots say that their salaries were cut by about 58% and the airline has now agreed to restore 5% of the cut, which the pilots have now rejected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not accept this paltry 5% roll back in illegal pay cut and you may advice the concerned to donate this 5% towards funds for building the Parliament or PM CARE,\u201d the pilots\u2019 association said.<\/p>\n
The airline, on its part, have always maintained that the cut in salaries of pilots have been high due to non operation of flights, as a substantial part of their salaries are allowances linked to flying.<\/p>\n
All airline had cut salaries of employees, including pilots, as COVID impacted earnings of airlines. Among airlines, market leader IndiGo has been the first in starting the process of restoring salaries of employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pilots of the national carrier Air India have threatened \u2018industrial action\u2019 if their salaries are not restored substantially. In a letter to the airline CMD Rajiv Bansal the pilots\u2019 union – Indian Pilots\u2019s Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association – have threatened to go on strike protesting an over 50% cut in their salaries. \u201cWe have given the management every benefit of doubt as well as ample time to redress the issue of disproportionate pay cut for pilots of Air India and its subsidiaries so there is no point left in mincing words. If we do not see a timely […]<\/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":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391545","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=391545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}