Pilots’ bodies at Tata Group-owned Air India have accused the airline management of making unilaterally “rapid” and “regressive” changes in the service conditions of pilots.
In a letter to Air India Chief Human Resources Officer Suresh Dutt Tripathi on Tuesday, Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) also stated that “all unilateral violations of their rights and service agreements are creating industrial unrest and shattering employee confidence in the current management”.
The communication comes amid Air India reducing drastically the annual limit of privilege leave accumulation to 60 days from 300 days earlier, as per a source.
IPG represents the wide-body aircraft pilots at the airline while ICPA represents pilots who operate the narrow-body fleet of Air India.
“To help the company, the unions have supported you in good faith for over a year. But still, we are being fed the same non-committal, bidding-for-time excuses while rapid and regressive changes are being introduced unilaterally in our service/working conditions through organisational announcements and policies,” the two unions stated in a joint letter.
