Kingfisher to fly again from next month
26 Oct 2012 7:41 AM IST
Employees of Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday came to a wage settlement with the management, which hoped its grounded fleet would be flying again by next month.
The agreement was reached after the management assured the employees payment of four months’ pending salaries before the year-end, ending the 25-day strike at the cash-strapped carrier.
The company’s top brass met the pilots in the morning and the ground handling and engineering staff later in the day to persuade them to return to work at the earliest.
‘We have reached an agreement with the management on the salary issue. We will join back work immediately,’ Satish Chandra Mishra, an aircraft service engineer, told reporters here.
‘We will recive our first pay for the month of March today, followed by April’s salary on Oct 31 and then May’s pay by Diwali. Our fourth month’s pay (June) will be given by year end sometime in December,’ Mishra said.
Chief Executive Sanjay Aggarwal said, ‘We have addressed all the concerns of the employees. We are all together in this.’
‘We expect to be in the sky (operations) soon and put forth our case to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),’ Aggarwal told reporters at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Terminal-3 (T3).
The agreement was reached after the management assured the employees payment of four months’ pending salaries before the year-end, ending the 25-day strike at the cash-strapped carrier.
The company’s top brass met the pilots in the morning and the ground handling and engineering staff later in the day to persuade them to return to work at the earliest.
‘We have reached an agreement with the management on the salary issue. We will join back work immediately,’ Satish Chandra Mishra, an aircraft service engineer, told reporters here.
‘We will recive our first pay for the month of March today, followed by April’s salary on Oct 31 and then May’s pay by Diwali. Our fourth month’s pay (June) will be given by year end sometime in December,’ Mishra said.
Chief Executive Sanjay Aggarwal said, ‘We have addressed all the concerns of the employees. We are all together in this.’
‘We expect to be in the sky (operations) soon and put forth our case to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),’ Aggarwal told reporters at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Terminal-3 (T3).
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