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AAA One of the pilots’ unions of Air India on Tuesday threatened to stop work if the airline failed to organise vaccination camps for them on a priority basis.
“We feel let down by the self-serving approach of the management, which sees no injustice in organising vaccine camps at few bases but excludes pilots. If Air India fails to set up vaccination camps on a pan-India basis for the flying crew above the age of 18 years on priority, we will stop work,” the Indian Commercial Pilot’s Association wrote to Director Operations of Air India, Captain R S Sandhu.
DGCA: Will consider & take an appropriate call keeping the safety of flying passengers in mind. Representational Image | Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi: Amidst spike in COVID-19 cases across the country Air India pilots have sent a request to the aviation safety regulator. They have sought a temporary ban on pre-flight Breath Analyser test. This test is conducted to ensure that pilots & crew members are not in an inebriated state before operating the aircraft.
Captain T Praveen Keerthi, General Secretary of Indian Commercial Pilots Association, ICPA, in a letter to DGCA has mentioned, As you are aware, the Coronavirus Pandemic is causing havoc across the world, given the ease with which persons who have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for the Coronavirus can catch the virus. It is in light of this pandemic and the ease with which the disease gets transmitted that we seek a temporary suspension of the mandatory requirement for such Prefl
Suspend breath analyser tests: Pilots to DGCA amid Covid surge
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Suspend breath analyser tests: Pilots to DGCA amid Covid surge
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Apr 13, 2021, 15:05 IST
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NEW DELHI: Air India pilots have requested the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to temporarily suspend breath analyser (BA) tests in the wake of surge in Covid-19 cases. The regulator had last March-end suspended these tests conducted by blowing into a tube to ensure the crew is not inebriated due to coronavirus following demands from pilots after one of them had tested Covid positive.
The tests were resumed last September with airlines asked to do random pre-flight BA for 10% crew operating domestic flights and 100% for international operations. This 10% was hiked to 25% on March, 2021, when Covid situation was improving.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has sought temporary suspension of pre-flight breath analyser test to curb the transmission of coronavirus amid the rising number cases in the country on a daily basis.In a letter to the .
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