AIR INDIA COULD FACE STRIKE ACTION OVER NON PAYMENT OF SALARIES

Many Air India pilots have threatened to go on strike to protest against the airline management’s move to defer payment of salary for January to February 14. “We demand that our salaries be disbursed by 5 pm on February 10, failing which we will go on flash strike,” Indian Commercial Pilots Association General Secretary (ICPA) Capt Rishabh Kapoor said. Kapoor said that, “the management has deferred the salary twice in this month,” and that this was not acceptable. The ICPA had written to Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi last month saying the airline management was “not serious” about addressing the