As air traffic increases, airlines start restoring pilots' salaries

Air India reinstates employee salaries by 75% compared with pre-Covid level

The Tata group, the new owner of Air India, has begun the process of restoring salaries of pilots and cabin crew members in a wider restructuring of wages and allowances to align them with those of its three other airlines.

On Friday, the airline restored employee salaries by almost 75 per cent as compared with the pre-Covid level. For pilots, the company restored 20 per cent of the flying allowance in the current phase. The existing cut is 35 per cent of the pre-Covid level. Special pay and wide-body allowances of pilots, which saw a cut of 40 per cent, will