Air India is trying to woo back its former pilots, but the plan may not succeed. The working conditions that prompted the pilots to quit the national carrier in the first place have not changed much since their exit over the past three years.
The move, which has the approval of Ashwani Lohani, chairman and managing director of Air India, would offer a captive base of as many as 173 pilots who left the state-run, full-service carrier between 2012 and 2015, according to media reports.
"If we take back these pilots who have left us in the past, we will not only be saving huge cost on training them, but also save a lot of time, which goes down in the induction process," an Air India source told Press Trust of India.
But there are many reasons why the move is likely to flop, according to a former Air India pilot.
"Most pilots hated the bureaucratic setup. For instance, private airlines obtain the important Airport Entry Pass in a couple of days. Air India takes almost 14 days to do so. The list goes on. The HR policies of AI also change with seasons. There is no consistency and are altered as per Ministry and High Courts orders etc. Rather than wasting time in fighting the system, most pilots quit," he told the International Business Times, India edition on condition of anonymity.
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The move, which has the approval of Ashwani Lohani, chairman and managing director of Air India, would offer a captive base of as many as 173 pilots who left the state-run, full-service carrier between 2012 and 2015, according to media reports.
"If we take back these pilots who have left us in the past, we will not only be saving huge cost on training them, but also save a lot of time, which goes down in the induction process," an Air India source told Press Trust of India.
But there are many reasons why the move is likely to flop, according to a former Air India pilot.
"Most pilots hated the bureaucratic setup. For instance, private airlines obtain the important Airport Entry Pass in a couple of days. Air India takes almost 14 days to do so. The list goes on. The HR policies of AI also change with seasons. There is no consistency and are altered as per Ministry and High Courts orders etc. Rather than wasting time in fighting the system, most pilots quit," he told the International Business Times, India edition on condition of anonymity.
19/09/16 Kalyani Pandey/IBTimes
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