Air India Pilots Protest with Hunger Strike

When Air India was denied a place in the Star Alliance last summer, one of the reasons cited were claims from some of the airline’s pilots that the company was coercing them to fly longer hours than the terms of the contract required. The airline currently still owes many employees, even ex-patriot pilots, tens of thousands of dollars in back wages as the company struggles to stay afloat. A year ago, some simply wrote all these claims off to disgruntled employees in search of a fresh contract.