{"id":22636,"date":"2022-07-12T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=22636"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:01:07","slug":"indigo-to-rationalise-the-pay-of-aircraft-maintenance-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/indigo-to-rationalise-the-pay-of-aircraft-maintenance-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo to &#8220;rationalise&#8221; the pay of aircraft maintenance workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">According to an internal letter, IndiGo announced on Monday that it will &#8220;<strong>rationalise<\/strong>&#8221; the pay of its aircraft maintenance specialists and eliminate &#8220;<strong>anomalies caused by the epidemic&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Hyderabad and Delhi on Saturday and Sunday, a sizable <strong>proportion of the airline&#8217;s aircraft maintenance<\/strong> technicians took sick days in protest of their pay, according to sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu.jpg\" alt=\"IndiGo announced on Monday that it will &quot;rationalise&quot; the pay of its aircraft maintenance specialists and eliminate &quot;anomalies caused by the epidemic&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-22646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu.jpg 870w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1480139797_N5Yo0O_Indio_Reu-750x405.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><figcaption>Image credits &#8211; Vivek Prakash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 2, <strong>almost 55% of IndiGo&#8217;s domestic flights were delayed <\/strong>as a sizable portion of its cabin crew workers took sick leave, presumably to attend an <strong>Air India recruitment drive, <\/strong>according to reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the COVID-19 pandemic was at its worst, IndiGo had drastically reduced the salaries of a significant portion of its staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13180fbe-7a7c-11eb-ac73-a65418c40367_1614963059876_1621601075826.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>image courtesy &#8211; livemint <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>S. C. Gupta, <strong>senior vice president<\/strong> of engineering for IndiGo, said in an email to mechanics on Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the aviation sector as a <strong>whole, including IndiGo, to experience an unparalleled period of difficulty over the past 30 months. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">He said, \"I am aware of some of your complaints <strong>regarding wage increases <\/strong>and I recognise that during the last two years we have not been able to <strong>update your compensation<\/strong> in line with historical levels. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Informed with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Our Telegram group for Latest Aviation Updates :- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z\">https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo announced on Monday that it will &#8220;rationalise&#8221; the pay of its aircraft maintenance specialists and eliminate &#8220;anomalies caused by the epidemic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,399],"tags":[372,653,6457,234,123,6410,604,6456],"class_list":{"0":"post-22636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ame","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-aircraft-maintenance","10":"tag-aircraft-maintenance-engineer","11":"tag-epidemic","12":"tag-indigo","13":"tag-indigo-airlines","14":"tag-indigo-mass-sick-leave","15":"tag-pay-scale","16":"tag-rationalise-payments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22650,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions\/22650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}