New Delhi: The Maharaja does not want its crew to get naughty on duty. Air India's crew management system (CMS), which pairs pilots and cabin crew for flights and prepares rosters, routinely gets requests from crew to be paired with specific members of their choice.
Keen to avoid a scandal since some married crew members also make requests, the airline has now banned CMS from accepting such requests and warned of action against crew members who do so. The action comes two months after an AI captain kept 110 passengers, on board an aircraft that was to fly from Chennai to Male, waiting for over two hours as he insisted on flying with aparticular lady co-pilot.
Terming such kind of requests as "inappropriate", the order issued by AI general manager (operations) Captain RS Sandhu this Monday says: "It has been observed that CMS crew controllers and schedulers at bases are being approached by some crew, who are not directly associated with CMS functions, for requesting flights for themselves as well as other crew members... during planning or day of operations phase of the roster. The higher management has taken a very dim view of such indiscretion."
"All the crew controllers and schedulers are hereby directed to refrain from entertaining such requests, regardless of position, being held by such crew members. The same should be immediately brought to the notice of the undersigned. The same is for strict compliance, and any deviation will entail strict disciplinary action," Sandhu's strongly worded circular says.
01/07/16 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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Keen to avoid a scandal since some married crew members also make requests, the airline has now banned CMS from accepting such requests and warned of action against crew members who do so. The action comes two months after an AI captain kept 110 passengers, on board an aircraft that was to fly from Chennai to Male, waiting for over two hours as he insisted on flying with aparticular lady co-pilot.
Terming such kind of requests as "inappropriate", the order issued by AI general manager (operations) Captain RS Sandhu this Monday says: "It has been observed that CMS crew controllers and schedulers at bases are being approached by some crew, who are not directly associated with CMS functions, for requesting flights for themselves as well as other crew members... during planning or day of operations phase of the roster. The higher management has taken a very dim view of such indiscretion."
"All the crew controllers and schedulers are hereby directed to refrain from entertaining such requests, regardless of position, being held by such crew members. The same should be immediately brought to the notice of the undersigned. The same is for strict compliance, and any deviation will entail strict disciplinary action," Sandhu's strongly worded circular says.
01/07/16 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
