Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has reassured Air India’s employees that the passenger carrier will remain operational till its privatisation process is complete, one of the airline’s unions said. According to Puri was speaking at a meeting with Air India’s employees’ unions here on Thursday.
The Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA), one of the unions which were present in the meeting, said that all the unions opposed privatisation, but the minister stated that the government does not have funds to infuse into Air India.
Puri, the union said, that Air India will run till its privatisation and requested all the unions to cooperate towards the process. According to the ICPA, the minister expressed his displeasure over pilots and engineers demanding the government-owned airline to waive off their notice period. He said pilots and engineers are required to run the airline, the union added. In the last week, the ICPA in a letter to Puri said, “It is unfair for the Government of India to keep us bonded with the notice period while we are not being paid on time and our dues are not cleared.”
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