TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ With uncertainty looming large over the fate of Air India, the airline”s pilot union has requested the Centre to allow them to quit the passenger carrier without serving their notice periods. The Indian Commercial Pilots” Association said this in a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
A copy of the letter was also marked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior Union Ministers. Terming the Civil Aviation Minister”s statement that if Air India is not privatised by March 31, 2020, the airline will be shut down as “a matter of concern”, the pilots” union said in the letter.
“With this uncertainty over the survival of our national carrier and with no ”Plan B”, we request you to ensure that we are not treated like bonded labour and allow us to quit Air India without serving the notice period and clear all our dues immediately.” “It is unfair for the Government of India to keep us bonded with the notice period while we are not being paid on time and our dues are not cleared,” the letter said.
