The president and senior managing executive at Japan Airlines have had their pay docked after the recent conviction of one of its pilots for being drunk.
JAL president Yuji Akasaka will take a pay cut for the next three months as penance for the ’embarrassing’ incident which saw the pilot jailed for 10 months after turning up for work at London Heathrow with excess alcohol.
He will take home 20% less in monthly pay until February.
In addition senior managing executive Toshinori Shin will have his pay docked by 10%.
Both had already volunteeered to take pay cuts in November.
Pilot Katsutoshi Jitsukawa was found to be almost 10 times over the limit when reporting for duty for a Tokyo bound flight in October.
The flight was delayed for more than one hour.
JAL promised to ‘establish an effective and strict management policy to achieve full compliance at all levels to prevent a recurrence.’
Authorities are mulling stricter rules for Japan’s airlines in the wake of this and other similar incidents in recent months.
