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New Delhi, July 31 The Air India and Indian Airlines unions have reiterated their demand of clearing pending wage arrears and laying down proper career progression policy as preconditions for the merger of the two state-owned airlines.

At a special meeting convened by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs here on Tuesday to consider objections to the proposed scheme of amalgamation of Air India and Indian Airlines, the unions expressed fear that if the merger went through before their demands were met, they would stand to lose.

One of the unions even urged the intervention of Parliament considering that both the airlines were created through Acts of Parliament.

The lawyer representing the airlines’ management, however, refuted the argument claiming that both were 100 per cent State-owned companies merging to form another 100 per cent State-owned company, National Aviation Company India Ltd. “This is not a case of disinvestment for which any sort of Parliamentary approval is required,” the lawyer is understood to have pleaded. The lawyer representing one of the airlines tried to explain that the merger was being undertaken to make the two State-owned airlines stronger, to which the Unions responded that globally only less than half of the mergers had succeeded.

The meeting was attended by the Indian Commercial Pilots Association, Indian Pilots Guild, Air India Cabin Crew Association and Air India Aircraft Engineers Association among others. The merger process will get underway 30 days after the Ministry of Corporate Affairs gives its nod.

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