According to the Bangladesh Airlines Pilots Association (BAPA), officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have promised to address the pay disparity of pilots.
Captain Mehboob Rahman, president of Bapar, told bdnews24.com, content partner of Deutsche Welle. “On July 19, senior officials including Biman’s Managing Director Abu Saleh Mustafa Kamal met the Bapa leadership and promised to resolve the pay disparity of aircraft pilots,” he said. “Therefore, we have postponed the programs which we have announced to implement from July 30,” he said. I will fly normally.’
During the pandemic, it was decided to cut the salary of everyone in the plane, after a year and a half it was decided to pay the others as before, but this did not happen in the case of the pilots, so the pilots of the government airline threatened to go on strike The world’s air traffic almost came to a standstill after the outbreak of Corona, Biman Bangladesh Airlines executives cut the salaries of their employees after passenger flights were stopped Aviation has not yet fully started However, on 13 July the director of Biman (Administration) An office order issued by Ziauddin Ahmed changed the company’s decision to cut the salaries of its employees.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines currently employs 156 pilots. Their salaries are being cut by 25 to 50 percent from May 2020, according to the airline’s order for “officers” working on the aircraft and working from zero to five years of age. The remaining cockpit crew will not be paid any salary in July. However, cockpit staff, including pilots between the ages of 5 and 10, will get 5 per cent of their salary in July, and those aged 10 or above will get 25 per cent.
Pilots get foreign allowance, which is 20 percent of their salary. Now that it’s completely stopped, their pay will be reduced by 45 percent instead of 25 percent, for those whose 5 percent salary will be deducted, it will be 25 percent for them. For these reasons, the pilots announced that they would operate flights only as per the agreement between the aircraft and Bapar if the aviation authority had not been deducted by July 30, the pilots said. Do not adjust their salary like other aviation officers/employees.
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