Now their mothers are reporting sick too
The pilot of an Air India passenger plane seated his mother in the cockpit for a domestic flight, refusing to take off without her after he could not get her a free ticket, a report said Sunday.
The pilot allegedly demanded that his mother be issued a “dummy boarding card” at Pune airport in western India and placed her in a jump seat reserved for the crew for the two-hour flight to the capital New Delhi.
“When the pilot insisted on taking his mother on board, the operations and commercial departments were informed,” an airport official told the Sunday Express. “The pilot threatened that he would not fly without his mother.”
The pilot said that his mother was sick and he could not leave her at the airport, the paper reported.
Earlier it was the pilots themselves getting sick and now it is the turn of their mothers to be reporting sick...sounds a funny way to take the airline to the dogs
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/internat...
I suppose the pilots are being controlled by some foreign airlines who want to make a lot of money on their Indian sector and by getting Air India out of the way by using the air india pilots to carry out their dirty tricks they hope to get a control of the lucrative indian airlines industry
Great example of how Trade Union-ism could bring down a mighty company....
How can ANY company bear operating with a debt of $10 billion and operating losses of $ 140 Million?...
The Clothing Mills of Bombay were another example.... now converted into Malls...
lol Interesting article.
Who comes first , mother or motherland !
Haha..., this has been dragging for too long. I wish they borrow a page from Mr. Joyce's book and ground all flights like what Qantas did instead of bleeding the nation at the rate of $2 million a day.
As expected this things only happen in India. Welcome to the free world. Mum comes first and then the travelling public