{"id":641234,"date":"2024-04-10T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=641234"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:37:32","slug":"air-indias-aircraft-technicians-planning-strike-amid-mounting-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-indias-aircraft-technicians-planning-strike-amid-mounting-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India&#8217;s aircraft technicians planning strike amid mounting woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble for Air India Ltd. is mounting with aircraft technicians planning a strike later this month after its pilots voiced concerns last week about being overworked and underpaid. <\/p>\n<p>Technicians at AI Engineering Services Ltd. \u2014 a state-run maintenance, repair and overhaul firm and an erstwhile Air India unit \u2014 will strike on April 23 due to various issues affecting their \u201cwell-being\u201d and \u201cprofessional growth,\u201d All India Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Union wrote in a letter dated April 8 to the chief executive officer. <\/p>\n<p>The unrest among aviation workers risks thwarting India\u2019s air travel boom. Pilots and aircraft engineers are crucial to support the country\u2019s rapid fleet expansion after IndiGo, Air India and Akasa placed orders for more than 1,100 aircraft combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble for Air India Ltd. is mounting with aircraft technicians planning a strike later this month after its pilots voiced concerns last week about being overworked and underpaid. Technicians at AI Engineering Services Ltd. \u2014 a state-run maintenance, repair and overhaul firm and an erstwhile Air India unit \u2014 will strike on April 23 due to various issues affecting their \u201cwell-being\u201d and \u201cprofessional growth,\u201d All India Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Union wrote in a letter dated April 8 to the chief executive officer. The unrest among aviation workers risks thwarting India\u2019s air travel boom. Pilots and aircraft engineers are crucial to [&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-641234","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\/641234","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=641234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}