Kingfisher Pilots Strike

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.

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.

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.

For the first time since Kingfisher Airlines was grounded, the management has made an offer that at least some employees are willing to consider. It has said it will pay 3 months' salary, in a staggered manner before Diwali, and the offer has reportedly split the protesting staff of the airline, some of whom, mostly pilots, say that it is fair and ...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

Hopes of ailing Kingfisher Airlines resuming operations tomorrow faded today with last ditch efforts by the management to persuade striking engineers and pilots to return to work failing to end the deadlock over the issue of non-payment of salaries for last seven months.

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...

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the first time since Kingfisher Airlines was grounded, the management has made an offer that at least some employees are willing to consider. It has said it will pay 3 months' salary, in a staggered manner before Diwali, and the offer has reportedly split the protesting staff of the airline, some of whom, mostly pilots, say that it is fair and ...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

Hopes of ailing Kingfisher Airlines resuming operations tomorrow faded today with last ditch efforts by the management to persuade striking engineers and pilots to return to work failing to end the deadlock over the issue of non-payment of salaries for last seven months.

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...

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.

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 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).

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.