KINGFISHER CRISIS DEEPENS AS TALKS WITH STRIKING CREW FAIL
The crisis in Kingfisher Airlines worsened today as reconcialatory talks between the management and striking engineers and pilots over payment of seven-month salary backlog failed with the protesters rejecting the offer of part payment and vowing to continue their agitation.
With no end to the deadlock, a question mark hung over the airline's plans to resume operations from Friday, after a four-day partial lockout and complete suspension of all operations since Monday night.
"Our strike will continue as management has failed to give any commitment on payment of salary," a representative of striking Kingfisher engineers and pilots, Capt Vikrant Patkar, told reporters after a brief meeting in Mumbai.
On its part, the management offered to pay one month's salary soon and "expedite the payment of the remaining six months as soon as the company gets recapitalised," an airline official said on condition of anonymity.
03/10/2012 : Business Standard.
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