Mumbai: The Air India's pilots body, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), has issued a veiled threat of striking work unless the incongruities in their salary structure are addressed by September 7.
The ICPA general secretary, Praveen Keerthi, in a letter dated September 1said, "Our patience has run thin. We will wait till September 7 for the anomalies in pay and allowances to be corrected and international layover allowance to be paid up to date, failing which we will be forced to take action as deemed fit to safeguard the interests of our members."
ICPA represents around 750 pilots who operate narrow body aircraft and are from erstwhile Indian Airlines. In a letter to Air India's Director (Finance), the association said that they have been patient only because of the commitments made earlier but were now agitated because these were yet to be implemented.
"Despite several assurances given by you in the past eight months to correct the anomalies in pay and allowances, you have failed to do the same even in the month of August," Keerthi said in the letter.
The association observed that the airline seemed to have developed a careless attitude, especially towards the pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines. "The Ministry approved the pay and allowances for pilots of Air India on January 1and it is strange that even after eight months of the approval, they are unable to fix the addressed problems," a pilot told Mumbai Mirror.
05/09/16 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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The ICPA general secretary, Praveen Keerthi, in a letter dated September 1said, "Our patience has run thin. We will wait till September 7 for the anomalies in pay and allowances to be corrected and international layover allowance to be paid up to date, failing which we will be forced to take action as deemed fit to safeguard the interests of our members."
ICPA represents around 750 pilots who operate narrow body aircraft and are from erstwhile Indian Airlines. In a letter to Air India's Director (Finance), the association said that they have been patient only because of the commitments made earlier but were now agitated because these were yet to be implemented.
"Despite several assurances given by you in the past eight months to correct the anomalies in pay and allowances, you have failed to do the same even in the month of August," Keerthi said in the letter.
The association observed that the airline seemed to have developed a careless attitude, especially towards the pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines. "The Ministry approved the pay and allowances for pilots of Air India on January 1and it is strange that even after eight months of the approval, they are unable to fix the addressed problems," a pilot told Mumbai Mirror.
05/09/16 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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