{"id":141,"date":"2007-05-17T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-05-17T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T09:58:00","slug":"ia-staff-salaries-match-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/05\/ia-staff-salaries-match-rivals.html","title":{"rendered":"IA staff salaries match rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai\\New Delhi<\/span>: The salaries of Indian Airlines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (IA) ground staff, who have threatened to strike work over wage arrears, are on a par with their peers in Air-India (A-I) and other private airlines.<br \/>About 14,000 of the 18,000-strong IA employees have threatened to go on a mass leave on May 18, demanding a settlement of their 10-year salary arrears.<br \/> The entry-level and the average salaries of the state-owned domestic carrier are almost similar to those of their counterparts in Air-India and domestic private carriers.<br \/>The entry-level ground staff in IA get a salary of Rs 15,000 compared with about Rs 10,000 at Air Deccan. The salaries of entry-level IA staff are at par with their peers in Jet Airways and AI. There is a difference in the pay packets of IA pilots and cabin crew when compared with those of its big brother, Air-India. While an A-I pilot draws an average salary of Rs 6 lakh a month, his counterpart in I-A gets Rs 5 lakh.<br \/>Air-India primarily flies on international routes, while Indian Airlines flies on shorter international and domestic routes.<br \/> Meanwhile, engineers of both the state-run airlines as well as those of private air carriers are paid between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh a month.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some private airlines are even paying their engineers Rs 3 lakh a month to retain talent. This is because of an acute shortage of engineers even as the airlines are expanding rapidly,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d an industry source said.<br \/> Even the I-A employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 association concedes that the pay packet of its ground staff is at par with those of private airlines.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">17\/05\/07 PR Sanjay &amp; Anirban Chowdhury\/Business Standard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai\\New Delhi: The salaries of Indian Airlines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (IA) ground staff, who have threatened to strike work over wage arrears, are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}