Monday, October 1, 2012

Kingfisher Airline suspends flights for three days

A Kingfisher Airlines employee sits behind a closed counter in Mumbai (March 2012)

Kingfisher cited incidents including violence, criminal intimidation and refraining from attending work. It has declared a partial lock-out.

The government said the airline could not fly until its planes were certified safe after the strike.

Airline officials will meet the aviation regulator on Tuesday.

The loss-making airline, founded by Vijay Mallya, continues to struggle with a cash shortage.

It has also seen workers strike on previous occasions. Most recently in July the airline was forced to cancel 40 flights when workers refused to come to work saying they had not been paid for months.

At that time, Kingfisher said all its staff would be paid by 16 July.

In the latest incident, however, lack of pay was again cited as the reason for a strike that began Friday and was joined by more workers on Monday.

The company said in a statement Monday that "illegal acts" had been committed by a "small section of recalcitrant employees which were all unnecessary and unprovoked".

It added that the majority of staff are willing to continue operations but had not been able to report to work because of acts of criminal intimidation..

It said it would take disciplinary action against some employees.



Source & Image : BBC

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