A bit of the pilots of the fledgling Akasa Air has approached the civil aviation ministry alleging mismanagement, favouritism, harassment, and compromised security requirements within the airline’s pilot coaching and analysis processes. Reacting to the event, Akasa Air dismissed the allegations and termed them as “baseless and unfaithful”.
The pilots wrote to Civil Aviation Minister Okay Rammohan Naidu on December 11, itemizing their grouses and issues, and requested a direct impartial investigation into the provider’s administration practices, coaching strategies, and security requirements, it’s learnt. A replica of the letter was additionally marked to the aviation security regulator Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which had fined Akasa Air in October for sure lapses in crew coaching.
Akasa Air, whereas having been operational for simply over two years, has had issues associated to pilots earlier as nicely. Final 12 months in September, the provider even took some pilots to courtroom for breach of contract, alleging that they give up the airline with out serving the regulation six-month discover interval. Round that point, Akasa Air was pressured to cancel a variety of its flights as a consequence of such resignations.
The airline claims excessive job satisfaction ranges and low attrition amongst its pilots, even because the sad pilots claimed of their letter to Naidu that 84 of Akasa Air pilots resigned on a day’s discover.
“We categorically deny these allegations as baseless and unfaithful. Nor do they signify the views of Akasa pilots. At Akasa Air, our dedication to worker centricity is on the coronary heart of every thing we do. Our month-to-month worker survey reveals that pilots, amongst all worker teams have persistently reported the best ranges of job satisfaction, highlighting the effectiveness of our supportive tradition. This dedication is additional evidenced by the minimal variety of pilots in search of alternatives exterior of Akasa Air all through 2024,” an Akasa Air spokesperson mentioned.
“For context, 324 pilots have joined Akasa since October 2023. Throughout this similar interval, we now have recorded an annualised attrition of lower than 1 per cent for this worker group,” the airline’s spokesperson added.
The sad pilots have alleged that just a few senior airline officers, primarily examiners and instructrs, subjected them to harassment and humiliation throughout coaching periods, and had been biased in assessments and unprofessional in conduct, it’s learnt. These pilots are additionally understood to have alleged an unusually excessive failure price in pilots’ simulator and plane evaluations, biased assessments, violation of DGCA norms, and hiring and promotion of pilots deemed unfit and unsatisfactory by different airways.
Other than in search of an impartial investigation into Akasa Air’s administration practices, coaching strategies, and security requirements, the sad pilots are additionally learnt to have sought an in depth assessment of the airline’s DGCA-designated examiners and instructors, and a security audit to handle their issues over allegedly unfit pilots holding key positions.
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