Some 250 pilots who work for EgyptAir signed mass resignation letters in protest of the new “unfair” financial regulations, the head of the Egyptian Pilots’ Association revealed yesterday.
Speaking to reporters in Cairo yesterday, pilot Sharif El-Manawy said the mass resignations took place during the association’s emergency meeting which was held on Tuesday evening and continued until the early hours of Wednesday, to discuss the new financial regulations.
He explained that the new charter is against work laws and is largely flawed, as it favours a particular category over the other, “siding with management against the pilots.”
He pointed out that a delegation from the association will go to the Council of Ministers to submit the mass resignations, while another delegation will be heading to EgyptAir and the Minister of Aviation.
El-Manawy said that the regulations were developed and executed without the consent of the association or the pilots, pointing out that the association’s objections come as the charter granted the administrative officers financial advantages that were not secured for pilots, as the new regulations did not give the pilots their rights or financial advantages.
He explained that any airline increases its pilots’ salaries by five per cent annually to compensate for inflation, while the pilots in EgyptAir have not received pay increases since 2005, so they are now demanding a retrospective pay rise, which the new regulations give to the management only, not the pilots.
He said that the new regulations require the approval of the employer in the case of casual leave, which the pilots also object to.
Nearly 800 pilots are currently working for EgyptAir, he said.
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