A nearly two-month strike by Air India’s pilots has ended after the airline assured them it will “sympathetically consider” their concerns about assigning pilots to the carrier’s Boeing 787 fleet and the reinstatement of some 100 pilots fired during the work action. “The strike has been called off with immediate effect. The striking pilots will report to work within 48 hours from July 3 by submitting a joining report,” an Air India lawyer tells Aviation Week. “The flight duties will be assigned thereafter,” he adds.
Under the offset policy, any international vendor landing an Indian defense deal worth more than 3 billion rupees ($53 million) must reinvest 30% of the value with Indian industry.
