Air India sends termination letters to 48 pilots

August 15, 2020 10:51

Air India has served termination letters to 48 pilots, weeks after the airline asserted on social media that no employees would be laid off.

It is reliably learnt that Air India tendered termination letters to several pilots on Thursday evening.

The termination comes into immediate effect and you will stand released from the services of the company w.e.f close of office of August 13, the carrier has said.

Pilots have been given an equivalent of one months salary, according to sources.

You would appreciate that the company is already severely strained financially. Further, the global pandemic COVID-19 has resulted in extraordinary and exceptional circumstances by gravely reducing the commercial functioning of the company leading to redundancies. The company is incurring huge net losses and doesnt have the financial ability to pay, the letter informed the pilots.

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