Twenty two Kingfisher Airlines flights have been cancelled from Delhi on Wednesday after a section of pilots and engineers failed to report to work. Sources said that the pilots are protesting against non-payment of salaries for over five months.
While the airline has not paid salary to its staff since the past five months, a sizeable number of employees have not received salaries even for February.
"The management is unmoved on the issue as usual. There is no communication from them as to when they intend to pay us. We just can't work without being paid for such a long time. Hence the decision (to strike work)," a source said as per a report in ET.
The proposed strike comes ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament beginning tomorrow.
"We hope that the strike will pull attention of Parliament and our plight and misery echoes in the political corridors," the source said.
Kingfisher Airlines owner and liqour baron Vijay Mallya is in the capital and is likely to address the issue on Wednesday.
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