New Delhi: Crisis-ridden Air India faced fresh trouble on Friday with its executive pilots serving a warning that they cannot maintain the truncated global flight schedule "much longer" as they are stressed and do not want to jeopardise lives of pasengers and crew.
These senior and management-level cockpit crew have been operating 38 out of 45 flights as part of a truncated international schedule after nearly 400 Air India pilots went on strike on May 7 to protest alleged discrimination in career progression vis-a-vis their counterparts in the erstwhile Indian Airlines.
"We are fatigued and stressed and do not want to jeopardize the lives of our passengers and crew. In the light of the above mentioned problem (strike), we don't want to be held responsible or blamed by the management for disruption of the flight schedule, further alienating passengers who have continued to have faith and trust in us," the Executive Pilots' Association (EPA) said in a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh.
15/06/12 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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