New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines employees resumed work on Friday after striking a deal with the management and agreeing to the staggered salary payment schedule proposed by the company. Reports said that many of them have received the salary for the month of March. Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said that the airline has to satisfy the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and paying salaries is not enough....
12:27 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: It has been 25 days of protest, a lockdown and a suspension of licence, for Kingfisher Airlines. Its employees have finally agreed to return to work. The employees who wanted four-month salaries, agreed in the end to the management's proposal of three months' salaries. Employees, who haven't been paid since March, will now get their March salaries by Thursday, April salaries within a week, May salaries before Diwali...
09:15 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: An Air India woman pilot, who sounded a hijack alert at the airport here after some protesting passengers allegedly tried to force their way into the cockpit, in her police complaint claimed she was threatened with dire consequences. According to the FIR lodged with city police, Commander Rupali Waghmare complained that a passenger even told her he would not hesitate to kill her if anything happened to his six-month-old...
08:08 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Kingfisher Airlines staff yet again rejected the airline management's offer of three-month salary payment on Tuesday, demanding that the unpaid dues from March to June be paid in one go on or before October 26. Speaking to reporters, Kingfisher employee Subhash Mishra said that the staff members had lost their faith in the airline management. "We want the pending salaries for the month of March and full...
06:06 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has refused to intervene in the Kingfisher Airlines mess. He said Kingfisher is a privately owned company and so the government can't intervene and make the airline pay staff salaries. He also said that the payment alone will not be enough to make Kingfisher fly. "It is a private company, doesn't come under any ministry. Yes they have a problem, but the government...
11:24 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: It seems to be the end of good times for crisis-hit Kingfisher Airlines. Kingfisher's efforts to take off crash landed after it's 6,000 plus employees, who haven't been paid in the past seven months, refused the management's offer of three months' salary before Diwali. They say it's an eyewash and want chairman Vijay Mallya to come to the talking table. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Kingfisher employee...
07:32 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: It could be the beginning of the end for Kingfisher Airlines. The crisis-hit company, under lockout since September end, had his licence suspended on Saturday by the aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). This means an immediate halt on bookings, followed by the staff intensifying their protests for their dues. The DGCA on Saturday said that the suspension will stay till it is convinced that...
09:00 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: It seems it is end of the road for Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines? Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Wednesday said that the airline's license could be cancelled. Meanwhile, there seems no end to the lockout as talks with employees failed again on Wednesday. In fact the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has blocked out the debt-ridden airlines' winter schedule. No flights have been operating since October...
07:17 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Tuesday said that a separate air accident bureau which will be established to investigate accidents. Speaking at the Economic editors conference, Singh claimed that international traffic in India witnessed a growth of 5.4 per cent during January-August compared to same period in 2011. While, approximate losses of airlines in 2011-12 is over Rs 10,000 crore, domestic traffic is rapidly shifting to low...
12:42 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Mumbai: Nearly 70 staffers of the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines began protesting outside the Mumbai airport on Monday morning demanding payment of salaries. Their protest march will end at Kingfisher House which is adjacent to the airport. The protesting staff members said that the management had communicated with them so far over measures being taken to address their grievances. The airline has temporarily locked down its operations and grounded its fleet...
01:31 PM, Oct 08, 2012
The Centre on Monday refuted speculation about an Air India strike. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said that he had not received any letter from Air India pilots over the delay in salary payments. Reports are rife that a section of Air India pilots have sought Ajit Singh's intervention in resolving their grievances related to due salaries and allowances. ...
12:54 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Sunday reiterated that the crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines would have to satisfy aviation regulator DGCA on all aspects including safety and issue of non-payment of salaries to its employees in reply to the show cause notice. "DGCA has served a show-cause notice to Kingfisher to reply within 15-days... They (Kingfisher) have to come out with concrete plans on (how they are) arranging the finance...
01:50 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry has termed as "erroneous" the CAG's observations that "undue benefits" were given to operator of the Delhi International Airport. In a point-by-point rebuttal of the auditor's observations on Delhi International Airport (DIAL), the Ministry has told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the process of selection of joint venture partners was completed as per laid-down procedure by observing all relevant guidelines and in accordance...
12:59 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: With DGCA serving a show-cause notice to beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines asking why its license should not be taken away, industry experts on Saturday said it could have been issued four months ago when the then aviation regulator chief had made a similar recommendation to avoid the present situation. "The government should have taken forward the recommendations made by then DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan who had recommended issuance...
10:04 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled Kingfisher Airlines would have to submit a detailed plan to aviation regulator DGCA before they are allowed to resume flights, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Saturday. Asked whether the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was likely to move ahead with suspending or cancelling the crisis-ridden carrier's flying license, he said it was for the regulator to decide after it studies their reply to the...
03:20 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Adding woes for liqour baron and owner of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines Vijay Mallya is main lender SBI which has said that it cannot release any more funds. SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said that the tax department has freed 80 per cent of Kingfisher Airlines' funds and the loans to the airline are fully provided for. And there is no room for more loans to the airline. This means...
10:58 AM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday again made it clear that Kingfisher Airlines cannot fly until it satisfies all the mandatory safety norms. "In order to give them (Kingfisher Airlines) permission to fly again, they have to satisfy the DGCA (Directorate-General of Civil Aviation) on all safety issues," Singh said as the airline extended its lockout for another week. Asked whether the airline's licence will be cancelled...
02:09 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday said that what had happened to the Kingfisher Airlines was very unfortunate. He said there were high chances that the licence of the airline would be suspended. The Aviation Minister told reporters that the DGCA was seeking legal opinion as the company was in partial lockout mode. Singh said the overall management of Kingfisher Airlines was responsible for the company's failure. ...
06:22 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: As Kingfisher Airlines extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday said the debt-ridden company will have to satisfy airline regulator DGCA on safety before it gets permission to fly again. "There are a lot of factors involved in it. That includes the salaries of the employees, their disgruntlement issues and others. If the employees are disgruntled there is...
12:16 PM, Oct 05, 2012
The wife of a Kingfisher Airlines store manager Manas Chakraborti committed suicide in Delhi on Thursday. Her suicide note said that the family was under severe financial strain as her husband had not been paid his salary for the past six months. Chakraborti had joined Kingfisher after retiring from the Indian Air Force. The couple has a son who is studying in an engineering college. The victim's body was discovered ...
11:57 AM, Oct 05, 2012
