Kingfisher Airlines Ltd will ground its fleet for another week after failing to resolve an impasse with staff over salaries that have not been paid for more than half a year. The airline has been effectively shut since Monday after a weekend protest by members of staff turned violent.
"We regret that the illegal strike has still not been withdrawn and normalcy has not been restored in the company, thereby continuing to cripple and paralyse the working of the entire airline," a spokesman said in a statement late on Thursday.
He said the airline was extending what it describes as a partial lock-out to Friday, Oct. 12, "or up to such earlier date on which the said illegal strike is called off."
Talks between airline management and Delhi-based pilots and engineers on Thursday failed to resolve the standoff. Similar talks in Mumbai on Wednesday ended in what one senior pilot called a stalemate.
An official with India's aviation regulator said on Tuesday that Kingfisher would not get government approval to resume flying unless it pays salaries and submits an acceptable recovery plan.
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