Unpaid Salary: 1,100 Jet Airways Pilots Decide Not To Fly From Monday

Around 1,100 pilots of crisis-hit Jet Airways Ltd.’s pilots body have decided not to fly from 10 a.m. Monday in protest against “non-payment of salary”, a source said on Sunday.

The pilots, part of the National Aviators’ Guild, along with engineers and senior management have not received salaries since January. The debt-ridden carrier has also not paid March salary to employees.

“As on today, we have not been paid for nearly three-and-a-half months and we don’t know when we will be paid. So we have decided to go ahead with our call of no-flying from April 15. All 1,100 pilots of NAG will stop flying from 10 am Monday,” said a guild source.

The NAG, which claims representation of around 1,100 pilots of the total 1,600 with the full-service carrier, had in late March called for no flying from April 1 over non-payment of salaries. However, on March 31 it deferred the agitation to April 15, saying it wanted to give more time to the new management.

Jet Airways is at present under the management control of SBI-led consortium of lenders after the approval of a debt-rejig plan last month, which also led Naresh Goyal, its founder chairman, to quit.