Striking Air India pilots have no rights to be trained: HC

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today said the striking pilots of Air India have no right to get training on advanced Boeing 777 to be used in international flights.
Refusing to hear an Air India appeal against the single judge's May 11 order which had stayed the training of more pilots till the implementation of Justice Dharmadhikari panel recommendations on the issue, a bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said "let them call off the strike, we will then hear the matter."
The high court, however, refused to disturb the ongoing training of the Air India pilots.
"So long as they (Air India pilots) are on strike, the court is not inclined to hear the matter. They cannot go on strike as well as get training simultaneously," the bench said pulling up the Air India management for seeking court's intervention for training to the pilots who are on strike.
The bench, while posting the matter for hearing in July, made it clear that if the pilots call off their strike, they can file an application for hearing the matter.
30/05/12 PTI/Business Standard

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