Jet Airways Strike: Pilots' decision leave passengers in the lurch
Published by: Sudhir Kumar
Published: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 at 13:52 IST
New Delhi: Hundreds of passengers today faced inconvenience as the jet airways cancelled 115 flights scheduled for the day after its pilots went on mass casual leave to protest the sacking of their two colleagues.
The pilots decided to go on mass casual leave as the airline had sacked two of its seniormost pilots Captain Sam Thomas and Captain Balaraman last month after trade union body, National Aviators Guild was formed by them.
Jet Airways spokesman said that they decided to cancel 115 flights of our total 345 flights in the day in view of pilots going on mass casual leave.
The union gave a strike call on September 7 to protest the sacking. But the issue was put before the Regional Labour Commissioner for conciliation.
After going through the issue, he conducted the first conciliation proceedings between the management and union on August 31 and advised both the parties to adhere to the Industrial Dispute Act of 1947.
It said that since the matter was under conciliation, Jet pilots were legally bound to not to go on a strike.
Though the pilots withdrew the strike call yesterday as a part of their strategy, they decided to go on mass casual leave.
The Guild claims representation of 645 pilots of the total over 1000 pilots in Jet Airways.
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