{"id":438293,"date":"2021-09-27T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438293"},"modified":"2021-09-27T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:56:46","slug":"spicejet-now-interim-fixed-pay-system-some-pilots-flag-salary-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-now-interim-fixed-pay-system-some-pilots-flag-salary-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet now interim fixed pay system; some pilots flag salary cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carrier SpiceJet, which had resorted to hourly-basis pay for pilots amid the pandemic, on Sunday said it has introduced a new &#8220;interim fixed salary system&#8221; for captains and first officers.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said not only will pilot salaries &#8220;increase significantly&#8221; under the new pay structure but those who fly more than the stipulated minimum hours will be paid overtime.<\/p>\n<p>However, some pilots contested the assurance given by SpiceJet and claimed &#8220;stress&#8221; due to the continued reduction in their salaries implemented in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots claimed that they were being paid a third or a half of their pre-COVID-19 salaries despite the company achieving an occupancy rate of over 85 per cent on passenger flights and being among the largest air cargo carriers during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carrier SpiceJet, which had resorted to hourly-basis pay for pilots amid the pandemic, on Sunday said it has introduced a new &#8220;interim fixed salary system&#8221; for captains and first officers. The airline said not only will pilot salaries &#8220;increase significantly&#8221; under the new pay structure but those who fly more than the stipulated minimum hours will be paid overtime. However, some pilots contested the assurance given by SpiceJet and claimed &#8220;stress&#8221; due to the continued reduction in their salaries implemented in April last year. The pilots claimed that they were being paid a third or a half of their [&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-438293","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\/438293","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=438293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}