DGCA orders AI to deroster 40 crew members for exceeding flying hours

Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA is understood to have ordered Air India to deroster 40 cabin crew members on grounds of violating flight duty limitation norms by allegedly flying more hours than required.
The derostering was ordered after a DGCA team visited National Aviation Company of India Limited's (NACIL). Inflight Service Department recently and found that 40 cabin crew members had crossed their flying hour limits and that the airline had violated the rules, officials said.
Confirming the move, an airline spokesperson said it had suo motu derostered them when it came to notice during a review that they had "exceeded their flying hours".
However, he said the over-stretching of flying hours beyond the permissible limit was due to the recent strike by a section of its employees.
Under the rules set by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the maximum number of hours a domestic airline can ask its cabin attendants to do flight duties should either be 30 hours in 7 consecutive days or 125 hours in 30 consecutive days or 1,000 hours in any period of 365 consecutive days.
Specific limits are also laid out for the maximum number of hours the cabin or cockpit crew can perform flight duties at a single stretch.
11/07/10 PTI/Times of India

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