New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): After five senior Air India pilots lost their lives to COVID-19 last month, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has urged the airline to vaccinate not only the members of the flying crew but also their family members.
By: ANI
The five senior Air India pilots who have succumbed to the coronavirus are Captain Harsh Tiwari, Capt Gurpratap Singh, Capt Sandeep Rana, Capt Amitesh Prasad and Capt Prasad M Karmakar
New Delhi : After five senior Air India pilots lost their lives to COVID-19 last month, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has urged the airline to vaccinate not only the members of the flying crew but also their family members.
In a letter on Tuesday, the ICPA said that their immediate families were at risk of contracting the virus and requested that the provision of vaccinating employees be extended to them. We draw your attention to government policy allowing private and state entities to vaccinate not just their employees but even dependent family members. Pilots are being quarantined, testing positive, and succumbing to COVID at an alarming frequency, the letter said.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed that air traffic controllers (ATCs) and five per cent of pilots and cabin crew on duty would undergo random breath analyser (BA) tests for the next three months in view of the prevailing pandemic. Justice Prathiba M Singh further directed the ATCs, pilots and cabin crew to give an undertaking that they have not consumed any alcohol or psychotropic substance within the 12 hours prior to a flight. It made it clear that if a pilot, cabin crew or ATC is found to have consumed such substances and had given a false undertaking, such personnel would be off-rostered and appropriate action would be taken against such individuals.
Delhi HC orders random breath analyser tests for ATCs, 5% of pilots, cabin crew on duty
ustice Prathiba M Singh further directed the ATCs, pilots and cabin crew to give an undertaking that they have not consumed any alcohol or psychotropic substance within the 12 hours prior to a flight
PTI | May 11, 2021 | Updated 17:03 IST
In March last year, the high court issued an interim order suspending BA tests through the tube process for ATCs
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed that air traffic controllers (ATCs) and five per cent of pilots and cabin crew on duty would undergo random breath analyser (BA) tests for the next three months in view of the prevailing pandemic. Justice Prathiba M Singh further directed the ATCs, pilots and cabin crew to give an undertaking that they have not consumed any alcohol or psychotropic substance within the 12 hours prior to a flight.
State-owned airline Air India has cancelled its proposed vaccination drive tomorrow due to shortage of vaccines. The Covid-19 vaccination drive, which was supposed to be held on 11th and 13th of May, was cancelled at last moment. India is facing a severe vaccine shortage as it battles a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The proposed Covid vaccination camp at GSD complex, Indira Gandhi International Airport on 11th and 13th stands cancelled because government authorities have expressed inability to hold these camps due to non-availability of vaccines, a note from the senior assistant general manager of medical said in a note adding that fresh dates will be announced as soon as the airline will be able to buy new vaccines.