New Delhi: A stop gap arrangement is becoming an interminable routine at Air India, making life difficult for the 120-odd Executive Pilots. These pilots, who are not unionised and cannot resort to a strike, have been holding up international operations of the airline at a time when 424 pilots affiliated to the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) have not reported for work for the the last 38 days.
Even though the airline has truncated the international schedule heavily, many executive pilots are already off work due to severe fatigue while others are crying foul.
Already, 20 odd executive pilots have stopped flying. And the remaining 100 have appealed to Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh to resolve the mess at the airline soon. One IPG pilot, requesting anonymity told Firstpost, “How can 100 pilots take the workload of 400? Obviously fatigue has built up to dangerous levels. The airline is boasting that our absence is not affecting it but it is certainly affecting the executive pilots”.
So why is the airline management dithering over a decision to move forward? Despite several hints and insinuations over sacking the remaining 323 IPG pilots (101 were terminated earlier)by Singh earlier this week, the airline has till date not made any moves.
15/06/12 Sindhu Bhattacharya/First Post
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