NEW DELHI: A large number of Alliance Air pilots have gone on strike, reportedly over salary issues. Sources say pilots were promised 25% more as retainership but that didn’t happen. \u201cSo they went on a flash strike on Friday. This started from Delhi base and has extended now pan India. Evening flights cancelled,\u201d say sources.
\nComments have been sought from Alliance Air \u2014 the regional turboprop subsidiary of erstwhile Air India and now the only government-owned fixed wing airline \u2014 and are awaited. The government is soon going to divest this airline, with Tatas being seen as a likely contender as the group does not have a turboprop-powered regional arm along with IndiGo which already has ATRs in its fleet.
\nAlliance Air currently has a fleet of 19 turboprops \u2014 18 ATRs and a made-in-India Dornier of HAL \u2014 and operates 115 daily departures on a network of 50 domestic destinations mainly in north and Northeast India. The 800-employee-strong airline will induct two more ATRs by September and another HAL-made Dornier. The regional carrier plans to start an international route \u2014 Chennai-Jaffna \u2014 soon, depending on the situation in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: A large number of Alliance Air pilots have gone on strike, reportedly over salary issues. Sources say pilots were promised 25% more as retainership but that didn’t happen. \u201cSo they went on a flash strike on Friday. This started from Delhi base and has extended now pan India. Evening flights cancelled,\u201d say sources. Comments have been sought from Alliance Air \u2014 the regional turboprop subsidiary of erstwhile Air India and now the only government-owned fixed wing airline \u2014 and are awaited. The government is soon going to divest this airline, with Tatas being seen as a likely contender […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519001","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=519001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}