Hello,
Little post to give some info on what is happening at Air Mauritius.
Most of us now know what happened on the 5th of October.
4 flights cancelled.
Followed the day after by the dismissal of 3 pilots, 1 local, the 2 others expats ( the President and secretary of the Expat pilots association)
The Mauritian was reinstated after a few days after apologizing in writing.
The expats were threatened by police during the following week end.
One of them (the president of the Union) received a letter from Prime minister office that his residence permit was void and was asked to take the first flight out of the country.
A long legal battle started to counteract these abuses and this has an incredible impact on MK.
Since that date, many flights were cancelled or delayed (last one Saturday evening flight to Paris on the brand new A350 couldn’t t leave due to lack of crew), reasons given by the company being operational reasons.
Reality is very different.
Operations face the direct reaction of pilots tired of helping only to get a clear position of management trying to reduce their package by up to 25% in return.
This is what is being proposed to the new joining local pilots without experience, and deterring new expat recruits.
Pilots are regularly used to their maximum, 900hrs/y or 100hrs/28d, minimum days OFF on the island, leave not granted.
For so many years the flight ops relied on the cooperation and goodwill of pilots to run the operations.
Obviously this can’t work on the long run and MK is now facing reality.
Management is now buying time and meetings between unions and management are fruitless as no action is taken.
A few days ago, one of the pilots was reinstated but again after a very tough battle to remove unacceptable conditions of reinstatement (conditions that looked more like sanctions)
The last one is still waiting and there seems to be no rush for the management to solve the problem.
In the meantime all negotiations were put on hold by unions who stand together in front of this totally illegal and unfair management style.
Further negotiations will be tough, the MOU proposed since 2015 was constantly delayed by a few specific people in strategic positions with strong political backup.
IFALPA put a ban on recruitment by MK,
It looks like Parc is not interested anymore in advertising for Air Mauritius as the package offered is way below market standards.
Sad to see that economics have priority over social equity and safety.
There is much more to say but the main point here is to spread the word on unfair and unsafe practices prevailing in Air Mauritius.
Please spread the word amongst your friends and colleagues.
All what you’ve just read sticks to facts.
Sad but true….
