{"id":413483,"date":"2021-05-05T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413483"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:32:54","slug":"covid-air-india-pilots-refuse-to-fly-unless-vaccinated-on-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-air-india-pilots-refuse-to-fly-unless-vaccinated-on-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Air India pilots refuse to fly unless vaccinated on priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India pilots union &#8211; ICPA &#8211; has threatened to &#8220;stop work&#8221; if the airline fails to set up vaccination camps on a &#8216;Pan India&#8217; basis for the flying crew. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Air India&#8217;s Director of Operations R.S. Sandhu, ICPA said: &#8220;With no healthcare support to the flying crew, no insurance, and a massive opportunistic pay cut, we are in no position to continue risking the lives of our pilots without vaccination.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our finances are already spread thin covering our bedridden colleagues and provisioning for families lest we inadvertently infect them with the deadly virus that is an ever-present occupational hazard for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India pilots union &#8211; ICPA &#8211; has threatened to &#8220;stop work&#8221; if the airline fails to set up vaccination camps on a &#8216;Pan India&#8217; basis for the flying crew. In a letter to Air India&#8217;s Director of Operations R.S. Sandhu, ICPA said: &#8220;With no healthcare support to the flying crew, no insurance, and a massive opportunistic pay cut, we are in no position to continue risking the lives of our pilots without vaccination.&#8221; &#8220;Our finances are already spread thin covering our bedridden colleagues and provisioning for families lest we inadvertently infect them with the deadly virus that is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413483","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}