New Delhi: Air India may be struggling to survive but the pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India which were merged in 2007 have no love lost between them. The Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA, union of IA pilots) has warned that making AI and IA pilots together is a “safety issue” and that they should not be paired together for operating a flight.
“There has been a recent instance where an erstwhile Air India commander and co-pilot were rostered for a flight with an erstwhile Indian Airlines commander and co-pilot on the Boeing 787 fleet. In the past there has been an understanding on the issue. The implications and associated risk of common roster have been respected till now and management has refrained from rostering the pilots of erstwhile airlines together pending settlement of seniority issues,” ICPA general secretary Captain Deepankar Gupta has written to the airline management on Wednesday.
Over a decade after the merger of the two airlines, the issue of seniority and basic pay of pilots flying the same plane is yet to be sorted out.
“Even though we managed to avert the situation this time… In the interest of flight safety, ICPA would like to place on record its strong objection to any further such actions which has potential of causing severe cockpit resource management issue.."
27/06/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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“There has been a recent instance where an erstwhile Air India commander and co-pilot were rostered for a flight with an erstwhile Indian Airlines commander and co-pilot on the Boeing 787 fleet. In the past there has been an understanding on the issue. The implications and associated risk of common roster have been respected till now and management has refrained from rostering the pilots of erstwhile airlines together pending settlement of seniority issues,” ICPA general secretary Captain Deepankar Gupta has written to the airline management on Wednesday.
Over a decade after the merger of the two airlines, the issue of seniority and basic pay of pilots flying the same plane is yet to be sorted out.
“Even though we managed to avert the situation this time… In the interest of flight safety, ICPA would like to place on record its strong objection to any further such actions which has potential of causing severe cockpit resource management issue.."
27/06/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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