The facts of the Indian pilots discriminatory treatment, as described in the above letter, must hurt even more when a Bahraini national, Mr. Hamid Ali, is hired as Chief Operating Officer of an Indian airline and authorizes non-Indian, pilot recruitment. Mr. Ali appears on Indian television to condemn Indian pilots and then represents the airline in negotiations with those same Indian pilots!
view You Tube TV video of Mr. Hamid Ali condemning Indian pilots at the link below:
YouTube - Efforts on to break deadlock: Jet Airways COO
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The 'incredible' Mr. Hamid Ali:
Mr. Hamid Ali, a Bahraini national, joined Jet Airways in October 2007 and holds the position of Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Hamid Ali was the A320 Chief Pilot at Gulf Air when a perfectly serviceable A320 was flown into the Persian Gulf killing all on board.
The ICAO report found:
"A lack of a crew resources management (CRM) training programme; inadequacy in some of the airline’s A320 flight crew training programmes; problems in the airline’s flight data analysis system and flight safety department which were not functioning satisfactorily; organisational and management issues within the airline"
The ICAO report available to the
PUBLIC can be found at the following link:
GF072 Final Report (at the page, click on blue sub-sections to view)
Additionally, the BBC reported:
"The chief pilot of Gulf Air's Airbus A320 fleet, Captain Hamid Ali, has previously rejected reports that pilot error was behind the crash"
The link to the BBC report available to the
PUBLIC is:
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Gulf Air improves offer
When Jet Airways first began operating the B777, expat pilots were flying the aircraft as PIC without ever having passed a company simulator check and/or line check.