Mumbai: Cash-strapped Air India on Friday paid flying allowance for October to its around 1,600 pilots, a source said days after a section of them sought immediate payment of the pending amounts.
Flying allowance, which constitutes between 50-80 per cent of a pilots' salary, is generally paid in the first week of a succeeding month.
"The airline has paid us our flying allowance for the month of October. As per norms, they should have been paid in the first week of this month," a pilot said.
Details about the amount paid as allowances could not be immediately ascertained.
Air India has around 1,600 pilots and all of them have received the payment, he said.
Last week, the government provided a Rs 500-crore guarantee to the national carrier to help it secure fresh funds for operational requirements.
This was against a request for Rs 2,400 crore sovereign guarantee for raising funds.
According to the government, it has infused funds to the tune of Rs 30,520.21 crore in the flag carrier from financial year 2011-12 till December 5.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), a grouping of the carrier's pilots who operate narrow-body planes, had demanded clearing of their legitimate dues without any delay.
"We have never received our salaries and flying allowance on time, in the recent past 2-3 years. Flying allowance constitutes 70 per cent of pilots pay package and we are facing severe financial constraints due to delay in (payment of) flying allowance," the grouping said in a letter, dated December 23, addressed to Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri.
The source said flying allowance of the senior-most pilots account for 80 per cent of their salaries while at the mid-level this allowance is 70 per cent.
For the junior-most pilots, the ratio of the salary and flying allowance is 50:50.
27/12/19 PTI/New Indian Express
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Flying allowance, which constitutes between 50-80 per cent of a pilots' salary, is generally paid in the first week of a succeeding month.
"The airline has paid us our flying allowance for the month of October. As per norms, they should have been paid in the first week of this month," a pilot said.
Details about the amount paid as allowances could not be immediately ascertained.
Air India has around 1,600 pilots and all of them have received the payment, he said.
Last week, the government provided a Rs 500-crore guarantee to the national carrier to help it secure fresh funds for operational requirements.
This was against a request for Rs 2,400 crore sovereign guarantee for raising funds.
According to the government, it has infused funds to the tune of Rs 30,520.21 crore in the flag carrier from financial year 2011-12 till December 5.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), a grouping of the carrier's pilots who operate narrow-body planes, had demanded clearing of their legitimate dues without any delay.
"We have never received our salaries and flying allowance on time, in the recent past 2-3 years. Flying allowance constitutes 70 per cent of pilots pay package and we are facing severe financial constraints due to delay in (payment of) flying allowance," the grouping said in a letter, dated December 23, addressed to Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri.
The source said flying allowance of the senior-most pilots account for 80 per cent of their salaries while at the mid-level this allowance is 70 per cent.
For the junior-most pilots, the ratio of the salary and flying allowance is 50:50.
27/12/19 PTI/New Indian Express
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