Kingfisher Airline’s CEO Sanjay Aggarwal is
a harassed man. Not only does he receive the brickbats from his employees over
non-payment of salaries that are due for the last five months, but also be
answerable to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to assure them of the
airline’s safety practices in these troubled times.
Aggarwal was here on Tuesday to meet the
crew, engineers, pilots and other executives. While the meeting lasted for three-four
hours, sources privy to the meeting said that the CEO told staff that some part
of their salary will come on Friday.
“We have been lied to and at least six
times after promising our salary within a week nothing has happened. The
engineers, crew and pilots are getting together to call the media and expose
the airline’s mismanagement and Mallya’s splurging habits while the employees
suffer,” an agitated pilot told Express.
With international sector out of
Kingfisher’s radar, the airline is mostly doing ATR flights. A section of the
ATR pilots refused to work on Tuesday leading to cancellations of at least five
flights. The ATR fleet was mostly rostered for expat pilots. However, company
sources said that all the expat pilots have quit owing to the non-payment of
salary.
“At least 20 Sri Lankan pilots who were
recruited by the airline were kept on ground for one year and then terminated
over night. These pilots could neither find work back in their own country as
their flying licence had expired nor did Kingfisher pay them any money,” an
airline source said.
Many junior staff have represented on how
they lost their homes owing to non-payment of EMIs.
“Instead of setting issues straight the
airline is giving false commitments. CEO Sanjay Aggarwal is quiet on salary
payments and the government authorities are not willing to take any action
either. We are soon planning to file a petition in the court and meet the
labour commissioner,” an official said
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