{"id":543608,"date":"2022-12-16T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=543608"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:34:39","slug":"air-india-pilots-unions-claim-shortage-of-pilots-at-airline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-unions-claim-shortage-of-pilots-at-airline-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots\u2019 unions claim shortage of pilots at airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilot unions at Air India have claimed that there is a shortage of pilots to operate the airline\u2019s long-haul and ultra-long haul flights.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns raised by the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) also come against the backdrop of the Tatas-owned airline recently cancelling and rescheduling certain flights to and from THE North American region due to crew shortage.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint letter written to Air India\u2019s Chief Human Resources Officer Suresh Dutt Tripathi on December 13, the unions said, \u201c\u2026we cannot maintain the printed planned roster due to a shortage of pilots, as CMS (crew management system) does not have standby pilots.\u201d There was no immediate comment from Air India on the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilot unions at Air India have claimed that there is a shortage of pilots to operate the airline\u2019s long-haul and ultra-long haul flights. The concerns raised by the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) also come against the backdrop of the Tatas-owned airline recently cancelling and rescheduling certain flights to and from THE North American region due to crew shortage. In a joint letter written to Air India\u2019s Chief Human Resources Officer Suresh Dutt Tripathi on December 13, the unions said, \u201c\u2026we cannot maintain the printed planned roster due to a shortage of pilots, as [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543608","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=543608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}