Doctors find `sick' pilots airworthy

New Delhi: Promising to act tough against any indiscipline in the organisation, Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal on Tuesday said, "I have no
disagreement with the pilots. However, I cannot tolerate any breach of the basic principle of discipline. I am ready to reinstate the two sacked pilots (till then three more sackings were still to be announced) if they say they stand by our philosophy.''
The Jet founder had two rounds of meeting with aviation secretary M M Nambiar and DGCA chief Nasim Zaidi on Tuesday morning. While the ministry expressed its concern at passenger discomfort due to flight cancellations and wanted the airline management to amicably resolve the issue with pilots, highly placed sources said Goyal was adamant on one word-discipline.
It is learnt that the meeting saw references being drawn to how indiscipline had led to the fall of some big airlines.
Late on Monday night, pilots who were rostered to operate international flights to places like London, Brussels, Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, started reporting sick. Almost immediately, Jet started sending doctors to their homes, who found the pilots airworthy but grounded due to dispute with the management.
09/09/09 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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