Air India pilots union says 60% pay cut is illegal

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Any unilateral change by Air India in the salaries of pilots would be illegal and has the potential to flare up into a situation of “unprecedented magnitude”, said the ICPA, one of the airline’s pilot unions, on Monday.

In a letter to Air India Chairman and Managing Director Rajiv Bansal, the ICPA said, “In the press conference by Honourable Minister Shri Hardeep Singh Puri dated 16th July 2020, you had stated ‘we are in negotiation with the pilots’, which is far from reality.”

 “It was not a negotiation, but the ‘diktat’ of the MoCA (ministry of civil aviation) which was conveyed to us. We would also like to place on record that the so-called negotiation was ‘not harmonious’ in any aspect,” the Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA) noted.