{"id":446338,"date":"2021-10-30T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446338"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T05:30:07","slug":"remove-covid-related-pay-cuts-air-india-pilots-to-aviation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/remove-covid-related-pay-cuts-air-india-pilots-to-aviation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Covid related pay cuts: Air India pilots to aviation minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Boeing and Airbus pilots\u2019 unions (Indian Pilots\u2019 Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association) have collectively written to the aviation minister- Jyotiraditya Scindia asking him to remove the Covid-19 pay cut that is still being levied on them. The two airline pilots\u2019 unions, earlier had written individually but did not receive any response from their respective managements. With this joint letter to the minister, sources said that the pilots want the ministry to restore their salaries to pre-privatisation days.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation industry in India seems to be back on track with domestic air traffic increasing from 25% in April 2020 to 100% as of October 202. With the opening up of international borders for India, there seems to be an increase in international travel too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This ground reality has duly been acknowledged by other airlines, who have rightfully rolled back the Covid austerity pay cuts significantly for their pilots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Boeing and Airbus pilots\u2019 unions (Indian Pilots\u2019 Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association) have collectively written to the aviation minister- Jyotiraditya Scindia asking him to remove the Covid-19 pay cut that is still being levied on them. The two airline pilots\u2019 unions, earlier had written individually but did not receive any response from their respective managements. With this joint letter to the minister, sources said that the pilots want the ministry to restore their salaries to pre-privatisation days. The aviation industry in India seems to be back on track with domestic air traffic increasing from 25% in April [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446338","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=446338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}