Air India Express union seeks CLC’s intervention amid operations woes
The Air India Express Employees Union (AIXEU) on Tuesday sought the Delhi Chief Labour Commissioner's intervention in the ongoing operations issues in the airline.
The Air India Express Employees Union (AIXEU) on Tuesday sought the Delhi Chief Labour Commissioner's intervention in the ongoing operations issues in the airline.
The airline considered their sick leave a pre-meditated and concerted abstention from work without any justifiable reason.
The protesting cabin crew members claimed that despite promises of job security, salary preservation, and recognition of seniority and expertise, there has been a noticeable deviation from these assurances.
The ministry also emphasized the situation’s urgency and called for a prompt resolution to minimize passenger inconvenience.
Sources said the senior employees, including the cabin crew, are unhappy with the changes.
Some 300 staffers reported sick at the last minute and switched off their mobile phones.
In three days, another Air India Express flight was reported to have developed a snag. The flight with 170 passengers…
Full emergency was declared at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on Monday after a Sharjah-bound Air India Express flight from Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, made an emergency landing due to a technical snag.
Amid the losses that the aviation sector incurred during the Covid pandemic, Air India Express, India's first budget airline on regional international routes, reported a net loss - for the first time in seven years - of Rs 72.33 crore in FY2022, against a net profit of Rs 98.21 crore in FY2021.
As per the UAE government rules, each passenger travelling from India needs to bring an original Covid-negative certificate from RT-PCR test done 96 hours prior to the journey.
