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New Delhi:Flight operations at Vistara are likely to get back to normal this weekend onwards as the airlines CEO Vinod Kannan virtually reached out Wednesday to pilots, many of whom are on mass sick leave...
Kannan acknowledged that there were issues related to stretched working hours and has assured the pilots that the company will tweak the rostering system to make it more relaxed, according to the sources in the know...
Industry sources had termed the mass sick leave to be a form of protest by the pilots against the new pay structure implemented by the airline.. However, a Vistara source added that a lot of pilots take their sick leaves in March, as they lapse once the new financial year sets in..
With such high flight disruptions, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had stepped in Tuesday asking the Tata Group-backed airlines to submit daily reports on the cancelled and delayed flights...
In view of the various flight disruptions of Vistara due to various reasons including crew unavailability, DGCA has asked the airline to submit daily information and details on the flights that are being cancelled and delayed, the DGCA said in a statement...
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