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November 19, 2009 | Air India pilots to go on strike if demands are not met | New Delhi: Air India pilots, owing allegiance to the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), staged a demonstration here today asking the management to
fulfil their demands. The pilots held banners like ' Save Air India ' and 'Remove
Arvind Jadhav'. Arvind Jadhav is the chairman and Managing Director of Air India.
"Management is well aware of our demands. Whenever we protest if is taken for
granted that is for money but it is wrong money, money is not all, we have other
demands also and because they were fulfilled we were force to take our protest
to the roads," said Captain Ravinder. The pilots said that they would be forced
to go on strike if the management continues to ignore their demands. The ICPA
have threatened to go on strike on November 24 if their flying allowances and
other salary arrears of the past two months are not paid to them. Civil Aviation
Minister Praful Patel had recently announced that Air India would by December
receive equity of Rs 8 billion. He had added that a decision would be taken on
relaxing the foreign direct investment (FDI), after assessing the needs of the
industry. The airline declared a loss of billion dollars in the financial year
March 2009, while in September, around 400 Air India Pilots went on mass sick
leave for four days to protest against pay cuts, resulting in more than 200 flights
being cancelled and the airline losing more than one billion rupees. |
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