Mumbai, July 2:
Four Kingfisher
Airlines flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday due to a strike by
pilots, airports sources said.
The flights
were scheduled for Chennai, Mangalore and Jabalpur.
Around 200
Kingfisher pilots are on strike to press for payment of salaries, which have been
due from February.
An airline
spokesperson, however, said only one flight (Mumbai-Chennai) was cancelled due
to maintenance issues and the other three flights were not part of the
truncated schedule of the airline.
“The flight was
cancelled due to maintenance issues and not because of any strike,” a KFA
spokesperson said.
A section of
KFA pilots held a meeting with the airline management over non-payment of
salaries on Monday. The pilots said they will demand immediate payment of two
months’ salary.
However,
sources said that talks between the employees and KFA management failed.
The
cash-strapped airline has not paid its dues to oil companies and airports and
defaulted on payment of service tax and TDS to the government.
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