Air India has dismissed Indian Commercial Pilots Association’s (ICPA) claim that the airline pays its junior pilots on an ad hoc basis, doesn’t pay them for domestic night stops, forces them to fly overtime and does not grant them leave, causing illness. ICPA had written to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on the issue, marking a copy to Air India, last month.
ICPA had highlighted that 40-45 junior pilots at Air India were under stress because being ad hoc, they got a third of the salary. Besides, one fine day, the airline management had “unilaterally” changed the terms of employment for co-pilots. The letter was sent to DGCA just a few days after a German pilot (suffering depression) crashed a Lufthansa plane in the French Alps, killing 150.
Civil aviation ministry officials, however, say even ad hoc pilots are well remunerated even though they haven’t signed the contract issued in 2012. At the time of recruitment, many trainee pilots were given a commercial pilot licence by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy. Air India had issued contracts to these pilots.
09/05/15 Sunny Sen/The Financial Express
ICPA had highlighted that 40-45 junior pilots at Air India were under stress because being ad hoc, they got a third of the salary. Besides, one fine day, the airline management had “unilaterally” changed the terms of employment for co-pilots. The letter was sent to DGCA just a few days after a German pilot (suffering depression) crashed a Lufthansa plane in the French Alps, killing 150.
Civil aviation ministry officials, however, say even ad hoc pilots are well remunerated even though they haven’t signed the contract issued in 2012. At the time of recruitment, many trainee pilots were given a commercial pilot licence by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy. Air India had issued contracts to these pilots.
09/05/15 Sunny Sen/The Financial Express
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