No-pay leave offer to Jet pilots, 15 planes grounded
New Delhi:03.04.2019
Jet Airways has grounded 15 more aircraft and is now flying only around 13-14 planes. The airline told the DGCA —which is monitoring the situation daily — on Tuesday afternoon that it is flying 28 planes. Then, late on Tuesday, it told BSE about grounding of 15 more planes. The situation is worsening for the crisis-ridden airline due to delay in infusion of emergency funds.
Jet, which once had 124 planes, is now operating a highly truncated schedule and has told its Boeing 737 pilots that they may take “long break/sabbatical” without pay up to September. The decision comes after Jet sent all its big-wage expat pilots on furlough, or long leaves, without pay last week.
Meanwhile, Jet’s pilot union on Tuesday wrote to aviation minister Suresh Prabhu requesting the government to ensure the airline pays salary dues of January, February, and March with interest. TNN
Full report on www.toi.in
New Delhi:03.04.2019
Jet Airways has grounded 15 more aircraft and is now flying only around 13-14 planes. The airline told the DGCA —which is monitoring the situation daily — on Tuesday afternoon that it is flying 28 planes. Then, late on Tuesday, it told BSE about grounding of 15 more planes. The situation is worsening for the crisis-ridden airline due to delay in infusion of emergency funds.
Jet, which once had 124 planes, is now operating a highly truncated schedule and has told its Boeing 737 pilots that they may take “long break/sabbatical” without pay up to September. The decision comes after Jet sent all its big-wage expat pilots on furlough, or long leaves, without pay last week.
Meanwhile, Jet’s pilot union on Tuesday wrote to aviation minister Suresh Prabhu requesting the government to ensure the airline pays salary dues of January, February, and March with interest. TNN
Full report on www.toi.in
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