Mumbai: The employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who were on a hunger strike, called it off on Friday evening though airline chairman Vijay Mallya reportedly expressed inability to pay salary arrears. The agitation was called off after the second round of meeting between the employees and airline CEO Sanjay Agarwal, sources said.
Earlier in the day, Mallya reportedly told the agitating employees, who were on a hunger strike since yesterday, that he did not have money to pay them. "I don't have the money to pay your salary dues, because I cannot use the proceeds from the United Spirits-Diageo deal for this because of injunction from the Karnataka High Court," Mallya reportedly told the striking employees.
CEO Agarwal refused to talk to the reporters this evening at the Kingfisher House here. But employees called off the agitation as management agreed to continue to have dialogue with them, sources said.
Salaries have not been paid since last August. Last November, Mallya clinched a deal with British liquor major Diageo to sell majority 53.4 per cent stake in United Spirits for Rs 11,166 crore....
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10:25 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Mumbai: Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya on Friday told his agitating employees, who began a hunger strike, that he did not have money to clear their salary dues. "I don't have the money to pay your salary dues, because I cannot use the proceeds from the United Spirits-Diageo deal for this due to an injunction from the Karnataka High Court," Mallya reportedly told the striking employees. The employees of the...
06:52 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Mumbai: A section of the employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday sat on a hunger strike at the Kingfisher House in Mumbai, demanding immediate payment of salaries, which have been pending since last August. "As many as 60-70 employees are currently on an indefinite hunger strike at the Kingfisher House near the domestic airport," a source told PTI late this evening. The airline spokesperson could not be reached...
11:47 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Mumbai: Three more senior executives of Kingfisher Airlines, including its chief information officer, have quit the grounded carrier even as a section of its pilots are set to revive their agitation over non-payment of salaries. "The airlines' chief information officer Saurav Sinha, flight operations head Capt Ronald Nagar and cabin crew head Ajit Bagchi have put in their papers recently," Kingfisher Airlines sources told PTI. Their resignations come close on...
01:37 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Mumbai: Kingfisher Airlines, grounded since October 1, 2012, on Friday reported net loss at Rs 2,141.80 crore for the quarter ended March, 2013. The company had reported a loss of Rs 1,151.83 crore in the same period a year ago. The carrier reported nil sales for the period under review as against sales of Rs 782.83 crore in the fourth quarter of FY 2012. For the entire 2012-13, the net...
05:50 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines employees, who haven't received their salaries for months, adopted a unique form of protest. They booed Royal Challengers Bangalore's Virat Kohli at the Delhi airport on Tuesday. Virat is the captain of the team owned by Vijay Mallya who also owns Kingfisher airlines. Kingfisher Airlines, once India's second-largest airline, is behind on salary payments and has grounded its fleet. Over 80 pilots and 270 Kingfisher engineers...
11:40 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said the consortium of lenders has recovered Rs 800-1,000 crore and is making all efforts to recover the remaining dues from beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines. "KFA recoveries are going on. We have substantial amount of recoveries. Total recoveries for banks is more than Rs 800-1000 crore," SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said here. The consortium of 17 banks, led by SBI, has an...
06:56 PM, May 06, 2013
Mumbai: Banks will continue to sell pledged shares of Kingfisher Airline and invoke all other securities till they get back the dues, SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said on Tuesday. State Bank of India is the leader of consortium of lenders to grounded airline Kingfisher. "We have given instructions to recover and enforce all the securities. Our intention is to sell everything...all means of recovery (will be employed)...nothing would escape. Till...
10:16 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Grounded Kingfisher Airlines submitted a plan to the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to restart operations, saying its parent group would provide initial funding and asking for its flying licence to be renewed. Kingfisher, controlled by liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, who also owns UB Group, was forced to halt operations in October, 2012 and owes about $2.5 billion to banks, airports and others, the Centre for Asia...
08:13 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: After remaining grounded for over six months, Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday sought regulatory approvals to relaunch its operations and submitted plans to the DGCA on infusion of funds and revival of its flights. "We have shared the funding and traffic plans. The initial funding to restart the airline will come from the (parent UB) Group. We have also requested that our (flying) licence be renewed," the airline's CEO...
06:27 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: National carrier Air India has shown interest in acquiring some of the self check-in kiosks of Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) at the city's domestic airport, weeks after private carrier Jet sought to take over some of the international and domestic routes of KFA, say airport sources. "Since Kingfisher Airlines is no longer operating, Air India has evinced interest in acquiring a few of its kiosks," sources at Mumbai airport said....
11:49 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Kingfisher Airlines on Tuesday started remitting two months' salaries to its employees who have not been paid for the last 10 months. ...
09:52 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A group of Kingfisher Airlines workers gathered at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday to protest against the non-payment of salaries. The employees have not received their salaries for the past ten months. Last week, Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya had given them an assurance that their salaries would be paid. ...
08:20 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against the lenders to his grounded airline Kingfisher for selling a portion of the pledged shares of United Spirits (USL) worth Rs 100 crore, according to banking sources. ...
09:43 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Two days before the season six of the Indian Premier League begins, Kingfisher airlines employees have planned to stage a protest on Monday. Many of them are planning to hold a protest outside the Delhi residence of cricketer Virat Kohli. ...
12:58 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Aviation regulator DGCA said it has deregistered 15 aircraft operated by Kingfisher Airlines, paving the way for global leasing companies to take them back and easing worries that the dispute might hurt purchases by other Indian carriers. ...
12:50 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Frustrated over not getting salary for last 10 months, Kingfisher Airlines employees on Wednesday asked the government to prosecute promoter Vijay Mallya and threatened to disrupt IPL matches. ...
01:46 AM, Mar 21, 2013
acing acute financial crisis due to non-payment of salaries for the past 10 months, employees of Kingfisher Airlines are meeting here on Wednesday to protest their "total neglect and ignorance" by the company as well as the government and to decide their future course of action. ...
01:55 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Kingfisher Airlines challenging the Karnataka High Court order directing it to pay over Rs 350 crores of tax deducted at source (TDS). The company contended in its petition that the amount due is much less than the demand made by the IT Department and the department had not given it a proper opportunity to hear its case. ...
03:02 PM, Mar 08, 2013
India will make it easier for leasing and finance firms to reclaim planes used by Kingfisher Airlines, two government sources told Reuters, after complaints that India was complicating the process. ...
04:28 AM, Mar 06, 2013
