Kingfisher Strike

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  Vijay Mallya in Talks With Banks to Clear Kingfisher Dues

  The debt-ridden airline was grounded on October 1, 2012 when it cancelled all 50 flights after a section of employees went on a flash strike, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. It lost operator's licence on October 20, 2012.

• Kingfisher Airlines' staff to go on hunger strike from January 6

  Besides non-payment of salaries, the Vijay Mallya-owned private carrier, which stopped operations in October 2012, has defaulted on payment of loans worth over Rs 7,200 crore, secured mainly from the public sector banks.

• Kingfisher Airlines asks workers to defer hunger strike: report

  The agitating employees have asked for a written assurance from the management on the issue, they said, adding, "so far they have not responded."

• Kingfisher employees plan hunger strike over salary dues: report

  The employees received last salary this April for July 2012, sources said, adding a section of the city-based employees have already started a peaceful agitation. As of March, there were 2,851 employees with the carrier which has been grounded since last October.

• Kingfisher staff plans hunger strike over salary dues: report

  Employees of grounded carrier Kingfisher have renewed demand for salary dues and served a hunger strike notice, even as company chairman Vijay Mallya recently assured that efforts to revive the airline were underway.

• Kingfisher employees threaten hunger strike over salary dues

  Employees of grounded carrier Kingfisher have renewed demand for salary dues and served a hunger strike notice, even as company chairman Vijay Mallya recently assured that efforts to revive the airline were underway.

• Kingfisher Airlines staff call off strike; no word on salaries

  The employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who were on a hunger strike, called it off late on Friday though airline chairman Vijay Mallya reportedly expressed inability to pay salary arrears.

• 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.

• Diageo strikes Rs 11,000 crore deal with Mallya's United Spirits

  Diageo plc would acquire a 27.4 per cent stake in United Spirits, the leading spirits company in India, for Rs 5,725.4 crore, the company said in a statement.

• Never been elusive during Kingfisher crisis, says Vijay Mallya at F1 Grand Prix

  Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya today said he was never out of reach of his striking employees during the 26-day impasse over non-payment of salaries since March this year and had played an active part in the wage settlement.

• 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 management meets striking employees

  In a bid to prevent any protests by striking Kingfisher Airlines staffers during the upcoming Formula One motor racing, the management top brass today met the agitators in Delhi to try to break the deadlock over payment of salary dues.

• After Kingfisher Airlines' employees ask where he is, Vijay Mallya responds on twitter

  Employees of Kingfisher airline who have been on strike since last month expressed their anger on Monday about not being able to meet with the airline's owner, Vijay Mallya, as they negotiate the terms of their return to work with Kingfisher's management.

• Striking employees reject Kingfisher Airlines' offer

  There was no sign of an end to the 24-day-old impasse in Kingfisher Airlines with the striking employees today rejecting a fresh offer of staggered payment of three months' salary dues and insisting on lumpsum amount.