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Air-India issues ultimatum to pilots' union
April 26, 2003 15:35 IST
Air-India management has given an ultimatum to Indian Pilots Guild to withdraw the directives issued by the latter for operating flights to SARS-affected regions and resume duty till Saturday evening.
"We have developed a contingency plan and will consider disciplinary action against those unionised pilots, who fail to resume their duty," A-I spokesperson Jitendra Bhargava told reporters in Mumbai on Saturday after an hour-long meeting between the civil aviation ministry led by aviation secretary K Roy Paul and IPG members.
The pilots have been refusing to operate flights unless they are provided with a certificate that the accompanying crew had not travelled to SARS affected regions during the past 10 days.
Bhargava said IPG was told in categorical terms that various directives issued by them lacked merit, justification and were totally unreasonable.
These directives should be withdrawn forthwith for restoring normalcy in A-I operations, he added.
"If they withdraw the agitation, the schedule will come back to normal and management will study what could be done further," Bhargava said.
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Sub: pilots are right
The pilots are right. We must ban all flights to the affected contries with immediate effect. We are in no way competent right now to ...
Posted by rk singh
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Sub: A I Pilots
It is quite a sad thing that any unionised body can take the whole nation at ransom. We must remember that the same thing happended ...
Posted by Raghunathan
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Sub: Pilots refusal
I am with the pilots,its not only money that matters but his or her health that matters,just for the heck of it the government should ...
Posted by Abraham.Mathai
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Sub: also send those officials
If the officials force the pilots to go those SARS affected countries ,then they themselves should accompany them.how then can force peplle to go against ...
Posted by AVFISHEK SINHA
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Sub: Irresponsible & Selfish behaviour
Those pilots have acted irresponsibly just like most of the Govt. Sector workers in India. Those selfish pilots should be sacked. Just think of the ...
Posted by Arulmalai
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