AI stopped from hiring Kingfisher pilots
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) “shot down†Air India management’s plan to hire pilots from another beleaguered airline, citing it as “unnecessaryâ€.
Sources in the airline have revealed that the management was planning to absorb Kingfisher Airlines pilots on contract basis to fly its narrow-bodied aircraft and approached the ICPA, seeking an NOC for the same that was later denied.
These aircraft consist of the AI’s airbus fleet, which belonged to the erstwhile Indian Airlines, essentially used for domestic operations. ICPA is the pilots un-ion of the IA, but continued to maintain the body even after the merger in 2007.
05/08/12 Parth Satam/Asian Age