Ajit meet ends with no solution
The three-hour meeting between executive pilots and civil aviation minister Ajit Singh in Mumbai on Sunday failed to resolve the issue of executive pilots being overworked in the absence of pilots from the Indian Pilots Guild (AI).
The AI is currently operating 38 international flights every day, which are being handled by the executive pilots as opposed to the 45 international flights that it was operating earlier. Even these are taxing for the executive pilots, and there has been rising discontent among them over the issue.
“We tried to impress upon Mr Singh about the stress that we are under. Flying under fatigue is against the norms as it can compromise flight safety. However, prolonged discussion on this point did not get any results. We were told that the situation would remain the same until the issue with the IPG was solved,” said an executive pilot present at the meeting requesting anonymity.
Mr Singh had last week said that the Air India management will be hiring new pilots, after 100 IPG pilots were sacked, and that the sacked pilots, if they wished to resume, would have to apply along with the new aspirants as they would not be reinstated directly.
Sources said that Mr Singh stuck to his stand, saying that IPG pilots would resume as soon as possible, which would solve the problem for all parties involved. However, IPG pilots have refused to be recruited as fresh recruits, which is sure to prolong the process.
Executive pilots are not part of the union and are hired on a contractual basis.
They have been the Air India’s chief fallback in cases of emergencies like a strike by regular pilots. However, with even the executive pilots showing a steadily rising dissent with the Air India management, the situation is expected to get worse for the airlines.
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''The striking pilots are
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18 Jun 2012 - 11:15
''The striking pilots are distressed . Looks like they want a solution. The civil aviation minister is cooking up sumthing and hence not accepting any reasonable demand also of striking pilot. How can the govt supress a peaceful union. Derecognition of a union means killing the voice of the truth. How can court of law allow this to happen. Pull down this government''
one thing for sure , the govt is killing the truth in pilots voice , and not paying pilots for their work . If it cant give money , it first of all has no rights over sacking pilots , who are actually working without pay n actually doing social service''.
''There is a big conspiracy going on with striking pilots. The politicians have their eyes on 30000 cr . Bailout., so they wanT to reduce salaries of striking pilots , thru dharamadhikari and othr methods , and therefore having more money left at their disposal , planning to pocket it all. Its a big big game, Govt is aware that it is not going to win elections this tym , so they are making every effort to collect indias wealth for themselves, to survive themselves till they regain control over india . JAAGO INDIA''.
no body talks about tens of thousands of crores money pocketed & wasted by politicians over no time, and just look at how govt is counting each day and the losses company is making. well i must say govt thinks thy cannot be pulled down by masses. and its their ego and their hunger for money that this airline is going to loss''
''Absolutely useless govt. ajit singh should be pulled down for all his irrational behaviour, i'm so amazed as to why all strikes attract positive replies and only this one is NOT being handled with care and concern. The public must be in support of the pilots as they are on pilots responsibility when flying, the pilots want to be with the public and are concerned abt their inconvenience, but govt is trying best to instigate this case and make everymove to not let pilots resume. Thy have not made a single meeting with the pilots who are distressed. They are not paid for months and asked to work for free, the govt is misutilising all the money, every citizen is paying so much tax on every lil thing , service tax, vat, tds income, all this money is not being used to pay the govt servants but eaten up by the ...... You know who...... After that you sack them, wowwwww, what solution was this???? . Why is this dictatorship? Cant anna stand now, n wheres ramdev????''
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