HC seeks DGCA opinion on six-month notice period for pilots

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to give its views on the requirement that pilots have to give six-month notice to an airline before leaving.
A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah has directed India’s aviation regulatory body DGCA to clarify its stand on the circular issued by it in September 2005, directing the pilots to give the mandatory six-month notice.
“What is your stand (on) this … There is (an) assumption that a large number of pilots are going to be affected,” the Bench said.
The court’s direction came in response to a petition filed by Jet Airways, which challenged the order of a single-member bench, which had in May 2009 allowed pilot Captain Randeep Pratap Singh Panag to leave the company.
12/07/09 PTI/The Hindu