Air India senior pilot, engineer succumb to Covid
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Air India senior pilot, engineer succumb to Covid
Manju V / TNN / Updated: May 9, 2021, 19:50 IST
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MUMBAI: Air India lost two of its employees, senior commander Capt Amitesh Prasad, who was hospitalised with Covid early this month and Johnson Tirkey, a Kolkata-based aircraft maintenance engineer, both of whom passed away on Sunday morning.
Though Air India pilots and employees worked right through lockdown last year and continued to do so in the following months, operating Vande Bharat Mission flights to bring in Indians stranded in other countries, the staff were not put on the priority list for Covid vaccination. Despite being front line workers, several pilots, cabin crew, engineers and other ground staff are still to get vaccinated for Covid, even as they go about their daily duties at airports.
The committee also said it was satisfied by the UV sanitation method used by DGCA (File)
New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court has directed all airlines in India to strictly abide by the percentage of breath analyser (BA) testing mentioned in the April 27 order of aviation regulator DGCA and that no carrier should go beyond it for the safety of their pilots and cabin crew in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The high court issued the direction after it was informed by the DGCA that some airlines were testing more pilots and cabin crew than the 10 per cent limit set by the regulator.
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Struggling to get O2 cylinders , Air India pilots refuse to fly unless vaccinated for Covid ‘urgently’
Top Searches Struggling to get O2 cylinders , Air India pilots refuse to fly unless vaccinated for Covid ‘urgently’
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Updated: May 4, 2021, 15:02 IST
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NEW DELHI: Air India pilots have refused to fly unless the airline gets them ‘urgently’ vaccinated for Covid. The move comes after a large number of AI crew have tested Covid positive in the last one year, and there have been some casualties too. The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), union of erstwhile Indian Airlines’ pilots, told the management on Tuesday that its members and their family members are “are struggling to get oxygen cylinders. We are left to fend for ourselves for hospitalisation.”
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They have demanded vaccination of crew on priority amid COVID-19 pandemic
New Delhi: Air India pilots union (ICPA) has threatened to stop work if the airline fails to set up vaccination camps on a ‘pan India` basis for the flying crew.
In a letter written to
Air India`s Director of Operations RS Sandhu, ICPA said, With no healthcare support to the flying crew, no insurance, and a massive opportunistic pay cut, we are in no position to continue risking the lives of our pilots without vaccination. Our finances are already spread thin covering our bedridden colleagues and provisioning for families lest we inadvertently infect them with the deadly virus that is an ever-present occupational hazard for us.