AI crisis: Management calls for pilots' meet

New Delhi: The Air India Management on Tuesday called pilots for a meeting to resolve the crisis.
Bombay High Court will hear the plea against AI management's discriminatory practices on Wednesday. Pilots had filed the petition in court.
23 pilots are reported sick and over 100 have threatened to quit. 10 AI flights have also been cancelled this past week. Their complaint is that some of them have not been given a chance to fly the Boeing Dreamliner aircraft.
101 pilots have written to the management threatening to resign and seeking no Objection Certificates to start looking for jobs.
Jitendra Avhad, a AI pilot, said, "We have not declared a strike but we have conveyed our intentions to go on strike if there is no solutions."
Earlier, over 100 pilots threatened to quit the airlines, charging the management with adopting discriminatory attitude against them and stalling their career progression.
The development comes four days ahead of the launch of a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the first of which is expected to join the airline by December.
In a letter to Air India CMD Rohit Nandan, over 100 pilots, owing allegiance to the Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG), said they were "compelled to seek a No Objection Certificate so that we may consider seeking employment elsewhere".
01/11/11 CNN-IBN/IBN Live

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