Beleaguered
Kingfisher Airlines today faced fresh trouble with its employees deciding to
move court seeking a formal closure of the company if Vijay Mallya did not
spell out future plans giving a time-line for clearing their salary dues of
eight months.
The
employees are also learnt to have moved the DGCA, informing the aviation
regulator of their plans which also include seeking the intervention of the
President of India Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
airline sources said.
"We
demand that the management should share the revival plan with us. We also want
it to spell out a payment schedule for our salary dues. If we don't find their
explanation satisfactory, we will file a winding up petition in the court under
section 433 of the Companies Act," the sources said.
The
decision was taken following a meeting of the Kingfisher Airlines Maintenance
Engineers Association, which lasted for two hours in New Delhi.
The
staffers have also decided to write to the Kingfisher management asking them to
sell assets of the airline and clear salary dues running into several months,
they said.
There
was no immediate response from the airlines management to the employees'
decision.
Kingfisher,
whose flying license (Scheduled Operator's Permit) expired on December 31 last
year, suffered another blow with the Mumbai International Airport Limited
(MIAL) giving away six of 11 of flying slots, with sources saying most of them
have gone to Indigo, official sources said.
Its
bankers, which have been discussing recovery measures during the past few
months, have also decided to take legal action against the airline company for
its failure to repay over Rs 7,000 crore debt despite repeated reminders.
Kingfisher
is burdened with a loss of Rs 8,000 crore and a debt burden of another over Rs
7,524 crore, a large part of that has not been serviced since January.
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