New Delhi: Tata Group-owned Air India on Friday announced that the airline is going to restore salaries of its employees in a phased manner.


According to the release by Air India, the changes in the pay will be effective from the current month.


In a statement, the airline said, “As the hope of a post-pandemic world seems within each and the aviation sector takes off once again with some visible changes in our performance, we are happy to inform you that you salary cuts have been reviewed and the restoration of salaries will happen in a phased manner. The…changes will be implemented with effect from April 1, 2022.”


For pilots


The company has restored 20 per cent of the flying allowance in the current phase for pilots. The existing cut is 35 per cent of the pre-Covid level. Special pay pilots and wide body allowances will be restored by 25 per cent. These saw a cut of 40 per cent.


For cabin crew


Cabin crew's flying allowance for the has been restored 10 per cent. The employees had saw a cut of 15 per cent as compared to the pre-pandemic levels. Wide body allowance will be restored 5 per cent, as compared with 20 per cent cut.


For officers


Air India officers will see a restoration of 25 per cent in their salaries, compared with 50 per cent cut in other allowance over pre-pandemic level.


For other staff


Staff and operators will see full restoration of allowance, which was cut 30 per cent.


The company has mentioned that for pilots and cabin crew, international layover allowance and domestic layover allowance, whenever applicable, remain unchanged and rates applicable in March 2022 will continue to be applicable.


Meanwhile, the company on Thursday announced that Alliance Air "is no longer a subsidiary" of Air India. This announcement came after Air India said booking or queries related to Alliance Air won't be handled by the carrier from April 15, 2022.


According to a tweet by Tata Group, the airline advised passengers that "tickets of Air India with a 4-digit flight number starting with '9' or 3-digit flight number starting with '9I' belong to Alliance Air."