400 pilots belonging to the "management" cadre are going on sick leave. They cannot go on strike as they are not part of the union and part of the management (blue collar vs white collar argument). They are hoping the other 800 pilots of the union join the strike to cripple the airline so as to fight back against the "taliban" like decision of the management. Union has not commented. Salary cuts seem to be in the range of 3 lakhs per pilot. Other 800 are still flying as their salary has not been cut (hey whatever happened to the famous lets stick together solidarity? Not from your pocket eh!)
So lets see the savings p/m = 300,000 x 400 = 12 crs per month.
Assuming there are 800 + 400 pilots and the management wants to save this 12 crs per month then split it between all 1200.
This would add upto 1 lakh less per month per pilot or in other words a 25% cut vs a 70%.
Now lets expand it over all the 30,000 employees.......... = 4,000 p/m per employee (naturally an even amount is unrealistic and it would be on some grading to soften blow).
I wonder why not this route to save about 144 crs a year to start with. A small drop but nevertheless a drop.
Oh I forgot............UNIONS
..........so many of them.
Makes sense much like our politicians in India everybody feels they are right and don't care about thier neighbors or their co workers.
For the moment the pilots are too stressed dealing with the paycuts from 4 lakhs to 1.25 lakhs to fly passengers. Hope they all feel well soon as there seems to be a rash of "flew" in this particular section
