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China Eastern suspends pilots over striking for better pay and conditions
Published: Jul 04, 2008
China Eastern Airlines has suspended or demoted several of its pilots for taking part in a rare flash strike that took place three months ago.
The official Xinhua news agency says the Shanghai-based carrier yesterday suspended or demoted 13 pilots over the incidents.
It says the suspensions will be for up to two years, adding that two management officials and four other employees were “sacked for mismanagement”, while two others were reprimanded.
Over 31 March and 1 April 21 China Eastern aircraft operating domestic passenger flights returned to their departure airports after takeoff, many of them as a protest by pilots for better pay and working conditions.
The CAAC fined the airline 1.5 million yuan ($217,000) for the disruptions, which were out of China Eastern’s Yunnan branch.
On March 31, 18 flights returned to their departure points in southwestern Yunnan province, affecting more than 1,000 passengers. Media reports said that the pilots, who work for China Eastern Airlines' Yunnan branch, were protesting over their pay and working conditions. In the past years, more and more pilots put forward resignation. What lies behind it is a pilot shortage and the out-of-date pilot management system in China. China has 12,000 civil pilots. But official figures predict that the total number of flights would increase 80 percent by 2010 and 6,500 more pilots would be required.
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