New Delhi: More than 200 pilots of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines have threatened to strike work if their salaries for December are not paid by the end of this month, a deadline that the private carrier's promoter Vijay Mallya committed to earlier.
"We may not be available for flying duties in case our dues are not cleared in time," the pilots said in one of the many emails shot off to the CEO Sanjay Agarwal and EVP (operations and engineering) Hitesh Patel over the past few days.
Kingfisher did not reply to an email from ET that sought to ascertain when the management planned to respond to the pilots. The carrier has about 550 pilots.
The threatened strike may also jeopardise Kingfisher's plan to join the One World Alliance - a group of several global airlines - next month.
Mallya had promised all employees in an email on January 16, that the dues for November would be cleared within a couple of days. However, the employees received their salaries a day later.
27/01/12 Anindya Upadhyay/Economic Times
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