Kingfisher Pilots On Strike

• Kingfisher engineers to meet on January 20 on winding-up petition

  Employees of grounded Kingfisher Airlines, whose salaries have remained unpaid for the past eight months, are again in a defiant mood with the pilots today deciding to launch a hunger strike next week. Its engineers would also meet in Delhi on January 20 to discuss the filing of a closure petition against the beleaguered airline.

• Kingfisher Airlines loses flying licence as deadline expires

  The licence was suspended on October 20 after a strike by the airline's pilots and engineers in September-end over non-payment of salaries for several months, grounding the airlines entire fleet.

• Kingfisher Airlines pilots, engineers agree to management's offer; join work

  In a breakthrough for the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines, its pilots, and then some time later its engineers, who had been on strike since last month, today accepted the management's offer of three months' salary, paid in tranches by Diwali.

• Kingfisher Airlines faces possible shutdown: Top 10 developments

  Kingfisher Airlines faces a possible shutdown with aviation regulator DGCA issuing it a show cause notice today asking why its license should not be suspended or cancelled. This after the carrier has had to extend its lockout till October 12 and said that its fleet would remain grounded till then. Talks with engineers and pilots on strike have fail...

• 'Is your party over Mr Mallya?' protesting Kingfisher Airlines employees ask

  Scores of Kingfisher Airlines employees, including pilots, engineers and technicians, on Friday took out a procession to the airlines office in Mumbai to demand their pending salaries and other dues.

• Kingfisher skids back to square one as staff meetings cancelled

  Kingfisher Airlines partial lockout was extended by a week, as the deadlock between workers and management continues. Engineers in Bangalore have refused to meet the CEO, sources said. The Bangalore and Chennai meetings stand cancelled as of now. Yesterday, only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi on Thursday, despite him sendi...

• Kingfisher crisis: Partial lockout extended till October 12 after talks fail

  With talks between workers and management failing, Kingfisher Airlines today extended its partial lockout till October 12. Only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi today, despite him sending an email last evening to set up meetings through the day; almost all of the 270 engineers on strike since Sunday boycotted the meeting.

• No end to Kingfisher crisis as deadlock continues: Latest Developments

  Kingfisher Airlines partial lockout was to have ended today, but that seems unlikely as the deadlock between workers and management continues. Only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi today, despite him sending an email last evening to set up meetings through the day; almost all of the 270 engineers on strike since Sunday boyco...

• Kingfisher Airlines faces possible shutdown: Top 10 developments

  Kingfisher Airlines faces a possible shutdown with aviation regulator DGCA issuing it a show cause notice on Friday asking why its license should not be suspended or cancelled. On its part, the airline said it will submit a comprehensive plan for restoration of services well in time. The development comes after the carrier had to extend its lockout...

• Kingfisher pilots threaten to go on strike from tomorrow

  Pilots of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, which has been operating a skeletal schedule, have threatened to go on strike from tomorrow as part of mass agitation for immediate disbursal of salaries.

• Kingfisher Airlines pilots threaten to go on strike from today

  Pilots of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, which has been operating a skeletal schedule, have threatened to go on strike from tomorrow as part of mass agitation for immediate disbursal of salaries.

• Indigo soars with least cancellations, Air India dives

  IndiGo cancelled just 0.3 per cent of its total flights between July 2011 and June this year. On the other hand, Air India, which faced a 58-day-long strike by its pilots, had the most number of its flights cancelled (3.4 per cent).

• Kingfisher Airlines cancels 5 flights as pilots go on strike again

  This is the second time in 10 days that pilots of the debt-laden carrier have stayed away from work over non-payment of salaries.

• Kingfisher says flights resume

  Debt-crippled Kingfisher Airlines' scheduled flights will operate normally with immediate effect, the company said in a statement late on Saturday.

• Pilots' strike over, flights to be normal Sunday, says Kingfisher Airlines

  Kingfisher Airlines' said all scheduled flights would operate normally on Sunday even after a strike.