AI pilots fail to do a Jet

New Delhi: The threat of Air India pilots to disrupt operations today because of a proposed salary cut failed to have any significant impact. Agitating executive pilots claimed 400 pilots remained off duty. But a spokesperson for National Aviation Company of India, which runs the airline, claimed only 20 pilots reported sick.
As a result, only 11 domestic flights were cancelled, including flights from Delhi to Lucknow and Srinagar. Air India operates around 400 flights in a day and has a market share of 16.6 per cent. “All the 58 international flights operated normally,” said the spokesperson.
The pilots of Jet Airways had recently gone on sick leave demanding reinstatement of two colleagues and had brought the operations of the airline to a standstill. But the agitation of the Air India pilots has not resulted in anything like that so far. The management of the airline will meet the pilots tomorrow to discuss the issue.
India Commercial Pilots’ Association which is the larger of the two pilot unions of Air India, will not go on strike as salaries of its members have not been cut, said an ICPA representative.
27/09/09 Business Standard

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