New Delhi: Pilots of Air India are up in arms over 25% pay cut inflicted by the management for past two years along with a backlog in payment of that reduced salary. They have warned the airline that "morale of employees is at an all-time low" and appealed for an "amicable solution to pending issues".
In a thinly veiled warning of a mass exodus, the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines) has written to AI's outgoing chairman Rohit Nandan that "Where other airlines are doing roadshows and advertising aggressively for pilots, we feel our loyalty to AI is being construed as our weakness."
"No battle can be won with a demoralized army, and a battle we are fighting right now for the survival of Air India. The management does not seem bothered by the exodus of pilots, especially the experienced ones..... (It) has shown no will to resolve issues through dialogue," a letter written by ICPA's general secretary Praveen Keerthi on Saturday said.
09/09/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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In a thinly veiled warning of a mass exodus, the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines) has written to AI's outgoing chairman Rohit Nandan that "Where other airlines are doing roadshows and advertising aggressively for pilots, we feel our loyalty to AI is being construed as our weakness."
"No battle can be won with a demoralized army, and a battle we are fighting right now for the survival of Air India. The management does not seem bothered by the exodus of pilots, especially the experienced ones..... (It) has shown no will to resolve issues through dialogue," a letter written by ICPA's general secretary Praveen Keerthi on Saturday said.
09/09/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
