Air India Out Of Money Passengers Safety Feared
New Delhi June 5, 2011
India’s national carrier ‘Air India’ is facing serous financial crisis and has almost run out of money. The air line has no fund to pay salary and allowances to its 30.000 employees, a news report said.
Banks are not prepared to lend more money to Air India unless the airline comes up with some solid and convincible turnaround plan. A senior official claimed that he was being paid only Rs 36000/- per month since March against his normal salary of 4 lakhs per month.
The pilots of the Indian Airlines have submitted complained in writing to the safety regulator that they have not been paid allowances which are over 80% of their pay since March 2011.
The pilots said in their complaint "We would like to apprise you of the grim and dangerous situation existing in AI today... in our field of work there is no scope for error, but any human being put under such extreme stress is liable to perform poorly. We (have) not been paid for three months... in case of any unfortunate incident/accident, the entire blame will be on the current chairman and managing director (Arvind Jadhav), the incompetent top management and nobody else,"
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association has called upon the DGCA on Friday to intervene and resolve the crisis in the "interest of flight safety", news report said.
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