The impasse at Tata Group-owned Vistara Airlines is not yet over. On April 3, Vistara CEO Vinod Kannan met the pilots and reportedly discussed roster schedules, salary structures post its merger with Air India. But sources told Business Today that the meeting ended with no solution or backup plan.
Sources added that the airline hopes to return to normalcy by next week. The pilots are protesting revised contracts following the airline’s merger with Air India.
The meeting was attended by on-duty airline pilots and other officers. HR Head Deepa Chadha, Vinod Bhat, Vikram Mohan Dayal, and Rajiv Malhotra were also part of the town hall.
Today’s meeting was organised after several Vistara flights were delayed and cancelled over the past few days. Some Vistara pilots took sick leave and didn’t show up for work, resulting in flight delays and cancellations. Vistara, which was created through a partnership between the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, flies 300 routes daily, across 50 cities.
The airline has around 800 pilots and the senior first officers who resigned had completed their conversion training that allowed them to operate wide-body Boeing 787 planes. However, they did not get the duty of flying the 787 aircraft
(With agency inputs)