Lessons from Indian Airlines 1993 strike

Mumbai: There are many ways to quash a strike. One of the sure-shot method employed in the past by airline CEOs was to lease aircraft and pilots from other carriers and thus, limit the damage on the airline's flight schedule. But when the Indian government tried it about two decades ago, the strategy back-fired.
In 1993, in a bid to break the month-long Indian Airlines executive pilots strike the government leased aircraft and pilots from Uzbekistan Airlines to operate flights affected due to the stir. It was a move which had been successfully tried by many airlines the world over to quash pilots strike, except that in this case, it failed. On January 09, the Uzbekistan Airlines' Tupolev-154 aircraft carrying 167 Indian Airlines passengers from Hyderabad to Delhi crashed when landing in fog. The aircraft sped off the runway and overturned catching fire. Luckily, all the passengers could be saved.
27/06/12 Manju V/Times of India

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