Talks between Air India management and agitating executive pilots have ended inconclusively. The Air India Chairman and Managaing Director Arvind Jadhav held talks with the agitating pilots in Delhi for about two hours this after noon in a bid to resolve the standoff. But no agreement could be reached at the talks for now. A section of Air India pilots are agitating over the cut in their productivity linked bonus. Earlier despite the offer of Air India management to set up a seven member panel to look into their grievance, 14 flights had to be cancelled out of the 50 flights that operate from the National Capital. Meanwhile, pilots in Mumbai today agreed not to go on strike. They have agreed to the Committee set up by the management. In an attempt to create some accord between the striking pilots and the management, the Air India management yesterday held a meeting with about 20 Mumbai based executive pilots and decided to set up a committee, with the aim of looking into the PLI cut . Air India Spokesperson Jitendra Bhargava said that the committee, comprising Executive Director of Finance , Executive Director of Industrial Relations , General Manager of Operations in Mumbai and representatives of the executive pilots, would address the concerns of the agitating executive pilots over the cut in the PLIs. In Chennai the striking pilots have withdrawn their strike and resumed duty following talks with the management. Our correspondent reports that flight operations is Chennai have returned to normal.
News On AIR | September 28, 2009 4:33 PM
Talks between Air India & agitating pilots ended inconclusively; Pilots resume work at Mumbai & Chennai