Air India pilots threaten to go on strike once again

Chennai: Pilots of national carrier Air India on Thursday threatened to go on strike again if their flying allowances and other salary arrears of the past two months are not been paid to them by November 10.The pilots threatened to go on strike from November 24 in that case.
The decision was taken at the Indian Commercial Pilots Associations (ICPA) central committee meeting at the Air India house (complex) in southern Chennai on Thursday.
The ICPA, a union formed by 800 erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots, had sent a 14-day strike notice to the Air India management on Monday (November 02).
The irked pilots say that foreign pilots employed by the airline are being paid more than them.
Trashing reports that the airline is incurring losses due to recession, Captain Sabu, secretary of ICPA said that despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance, the Air India management has not paid any heed to their grievances.
"The management is not taking even a single step in the right direction. We have given them a number of suggestions on how to revive this airline and to improve our finances but they do not seem to be interested in that."
"They are only talking about pay cut from all the employees. No, recession has got absolutely nothing to do with this because we still see that our planes are going full, most of our flights are going full. There are passengers travelling," he added.
05/11/09 Economic Times

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