Pilots of Air India threatened the management that they would go on strike once again unless and until their 2 month salaries are their perks are given as said, they have told the management to pay by Nov 10th, if that didn’t work they would go on strike from Nov 24th.
The decision was taken at the Indian Commercial Pilots Associations (ICPA) central committee meeting at the Air India. The irked pilots say that foreign pilots employed by the airline are being paid more than them.

“Our demand is that our salaries… that is flying allowances is a major part of the salaries has not been paid for two months and the foreign pilots who are employed by the company are being paid approximately 30 percent more than what we are being paid and apart from other allowances and perks, they are also being paid on time.,” said Captain Sabu, secretary of ICPA. The Honourable Prime Minister had promised in his Independence Day address that he would not allow Air India to die away. But we do not see the management following it up. The pilots clearly say that Recession has nothing to do with the airlines, in fact all the routes are full and passengers are flying. But the airline declared a loss of billion dollars in the financial year March 2009, while in September, around 400 Air India executive pilots went on mass sick leave for four days to protest pay cuts, resulting in more than 200 flights being cancelled and the airline losing more than rupees 100 crore (one billion rupees).