After keeping quiet for a month over the non-payment of salaries, a section of pilots of Kingfisher Airlines on Saturday threatened not to report for duty from May 9, if the management failed to pay their January salaries.
According to the payment schedule given by the pilots to the Kingfisher management, they want the January salary by May 9, February by May 16, March by June 1, April by June 16 and the May salary by June 30.
Kingfisher airline has a total of 65 aircrafts in its fleet of which only 20 aircrafts are operational as of now.
On a global average, 250-300 employees are required per aircraft including two-four sets of pilots (depending on the aircraft size). If Kingfisher fails to pay the pilot’s salaries in the given time, the carrier will lose its existing aircraft operations and will be forced to ground all its aircrafts. This will further maximize the carrier’s losses and will minimize its chances of survival.
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