Jet's executive pilots resign in protest over pay cuts

Mumbai: In December, three senior executive pilots from Jet Airways resigned from their executive positions as they found that it was more lucrative to be pilots than executives.
The pilots felt that after taking the recommended 30 per cent pay cut, their salaries were commensurate to those of senior pilots and that it was more beneficial to be a pilot than an executive in that scenario.
When Jet Airways proposed pay-cuts in the range of 15 to 30 per cent for its employees in November 24, those badly hit were the 200-odd senior executive pilots.The airline decided to cut 25 to 30 per cent of their salaries in order to cut costs. "If our salaries are cut by 30 per cent, it comes to around Rs5 lakh," said a senior executive from Jet Airways. As such Rs5 lakh is what senior pilots earn in the airline. "The kind of work the executives do, we thought it was better to be a pilot than to be an executive," he said.
"They are in office for the administrative work during regular office hours.And they also have to fly if they are allotted on a flight. Despite doing so much hard work, the pay-cut seems harsh," says the executive.
However, a top official of the company said that the resignations of the three executive pilots had not been accepted. "We are renegotiating the salary cuts with them," he said.
25/01/09 Navita Singh/Daliy News & Analysis

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