Unpaid for nearly a year, disgruntled employees of liquor baron Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines (KfA) are making a dash to newly announced low cost airline, AirAsia.
The new joint venture between Malaysia-based Tony Fernandes, Tata Sons and Arun Bhatia of Telestra Tradeplace have advertised interviews for cabin crew positions on April 13 in Chennai. AirAsia promoter Tony Fernandes had said that they would require around 50-100 people for cabin crew for initial operations with around four-five A-320 aircraft.
Former employees on the condition of anonymity told Express, “we have waited for a long time to get back to normal daily working routines.
There is no guarantee that Kingfisher Airlines will start operations and we do not have the resources to wait until they have sorted their finances”. The workforce of Kingfisher Airlines is said to have dropped by nearly half from over 7,000 crew to just over 3,000 since troubles erupted in early 2012.
AirAsia has not made any announcements for hiring activities for engineers and pilots.
Reeling under heavy losses and debts, Kingfisher Airlines had managed to pay two months’ salary (June-July) to its staff last week. But this had still not prevented employees from protesting during Mallya-owned Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team.
Former employees have threatened to file a winding up petition and are seeking salary dues from Kingfisher Airlines while others continue to wait for any communication on salaries.
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The new joint venture between Malaysia-based Tony Fernandes, Tata Sons and Arun Bhatia of Telestra Tradeplace have advertised interviews for cabin crew positions on April 13 in Chennai. AirAsia promoter Tony Fernandes had said that they would require around 50-100 people for cabin crew for initial operations with around four-five A-320 aircraft.
Former employees on the condition of anonymity told Express, “we have waited for a long time to get back to normal daily working routines.
There is no guarantee that Kingfisher Airlines will start operations and we do not have the resources to wait until they have sorted their finances”. The workforce of Kingfisher Airlines is said to have dropped by nearly half from over 7,000 crew to just over 3,000 since troubles erupted in early 2012.
AirAsia has not made any announcements for hiring activities for engineers and pilots.
Reeling under heavy losses and debts, Kingfisher Airlines had managed to pay two months’ salary (June-July) to its staff last week. But this had still not prevented employees from protesting during Mallya-owned Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team.
Former employees have threatened to file a winding up petition and are seeking salary dues from Kingfisher Airlines while others continue to wait for any communication on salaries.
http://newindianexpress.com/business/news/KfA-staff-make-a-beeline-for-AirAsia-%E2%80%98assignment%E2%80%99/2013/04/10/article1538320.ece
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