Pay Cuts Can Trigger “Desperate, Extreme Acts”, Say Air India Pilots
Air India operates flights underneath the Vande Bharat scheme to convey again stranded Indians. (Report)
New Delhi:
Some 60 Air India pilots working repatriation flights to convey again Indians stranded in another country have examined sure for coronavirus, the airline has stated in a letter to the federal government.
The Vande Bharat project to repatriate Indians got here “with a heavy value to pay for the ones at the frontline. As of date, no less than 60 plus Pilots had been examined Covid sure,” senior-most pilots of the nationwide service have written within the letter addressed to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri.
“This has had a ‘devastating impact’ on their members of the family,” stated the letter, protesting the federal government’s resolution to vastly reduce pilots’ salaries.
The federal government resolution to cut back the wage of pilots via as much as 75% is “discriminatory, disproportionate and arbitrary and may have a disastrous mental affect which might cause ‘determined and excessive acts,’ as has been again and again confirmed again and again up to now,” warned the senior pilots.
Air India has a debt of round Rs 70,000 crore. The federal government has been seeking to dump the airline however no deal has been closed up to now.
Air India pilots have been the primary to fly into Wuhan to rescue stranded Indians and now operates flights underneath the Vande Bharat scheme to convey again stranded Indian nationals from a bunch of nations around the globe.
Greater than 7,73,000 Indians have returned from internationally. “It’s going to at all times be our endeavour to achieve out to each and every stranded Indian with a serving to hand,” stated the Minister.
On July 16, Hardeep Puri stated: “It’s important to make a decision if you wish to have Air India to live to tell the tale or do you wish to have to do that. If Air India is to close up, none of them gets a role. As of late, there’s a surplus of airplane and skilled other people to be had.”
The minister was once justifying Air India’s resolution to ship positive workers on go away with out pay for as much as 5 years.
Air India had stated that its monetary state of affairs could be very difficult because of the coronavirus pandemic and its go away with out pay scheme for staff is a “win-win” for them in addition to the control.
Shuttle restrictions in India and different international locations to battle COVID-19 have critically hit airways no longer simply within the nation however internationally. All airways in India have taken cost-cutting measures reminiscent of pay cuts, Depart With out Pay and trimming the staff.
