Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Kingfisher Airlines' CEO wants staff to start work on Oct 13, silent on issue of pending pay

New Delhi:  Close on the heels of the aviation regulator asking Kingfisher Airlines to stop selling tickets until its revival plan is approved, CEO Sanjay Agarwal has written a desperate letter to employees. "Given the pain that all of you and your families have gone through over the last year due to delay in payment of salaries, we can only tell you in utmost sincerity that this situation pains us immensely too," the letter begins. However, the letter does not include any details on if, and when employees will be paid salaries - which have been delayed since March 2012. It also does not offer any statement from the airline's promoter and chairman Vijay Mallya.
In the letter, Agarwal has beseeched employees to rejoin work so that Kingfisher Airlines can resume operations from October 13. The letter was sent on a day when ET that the airline had opened ticket bookings (in violation of regulations) on its website from October 13, even though it is yet to respond to sector regulator DGCA's show-cause notice asking why its license should not be cancelled.
10/10/12 Anindya Upadhyay/Economic Times
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