No more choosing flight mates for Air India Crew
posted on Jul 1, 2016 @ 11:21AM
Air India's crew management system (CMS) will no longer entertain any requests from the cabin crew and pilots to pair up their particular favorite colleagues on their duties. The CMS, which pairs pilots and cabin crew for flights and prepares rosters, routinely gets requests from crew to be paired with specific members of their choice. The airlines does not want to take any chance in the future as two months ago an AI captain kept 110 passengers waiting on board an aircraft that was to fly from Chennai to Male, waiting for over two hours as he insisted on flying with a particular lady co-pilot. The airline has hence banned CMS from accepting such requests and warned of action against crew members who do so.