COVID-19: Air India pilots threaten to stop work if airline fails to vaccinate flying crew ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 14:51 IST
By Ashoke Raj
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Captain T Praveen Keerthi, General Secretary of the pilots union of national carrier Air India, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), on Tuesday raised an issue with Air India Director Captain R S Sandhu about their guidelines of COVID-19 vaccination drive across India which excludes pilots.
In a letter to the Air India Director, Keerthi threatened to stop work if the management fails to set up vaccination camps pan India for the flying crew above age of 18 years.
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NEW DELHI: Following a warning from Air India pilots that they will stop flying unless they are given Covid jabs urgently, the airline late on Tuesday night said “all employees will be vaccinated by end of this month.”
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), union of erstwhile Indian Airlines’ pilots, issued its warning after a large number of AI crew tested Covid positive in the last one year, and there have been some casualties too.
“…are struggling to get oxygen cylinders. We are left to fend for ourselves for hospitalisation. With no health care 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… If AI 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’,” ICPA has written to AI management.
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We feel let down : Air India pilots threaten to stop work if airline fails to vaccinate crew on priority
Captain Keerthi also claimed that they have no healthcare support, no insurance and they are in no position to continue risking the lives of pilots. , File Photo
Updated: May 4, 2021, 04:11 PM IST
Captain T Praveen Keerthi, General Secretary of the pilots union of national carrier Air India, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), on Tuesday raised an issue with Air India Director Captain R S Sandhu about their guidelines of COVID-19 vaccination drive across India which excludes pilots.
In a letter to the Air India Director, Keerthi threatened to stop work if the management fails to set up vaccination camps pan India for the flying crew above the age of 18 years.