Kingfisher Strike

• Kingfisher employees threaten hunger strike over salary dues

  Employees of grounded carrier Kingfisher have renewed demand for salary dues and served a hunger strike notice, even as company chairman Vijay Mallya recently assured that efforts to revive the airline were underway.

• After Kingfisher Airlines' employees ask where he is, Vijay Mallya responds on twitter

  Employees of Kingfisher airline who have been on strike since last month expressed their anger on Monday about not being able to meet with the airline's owner, Vijay Mallya, as they negotiate the terms of their return to work with Kingfisher's management.

• Kingfisher Airlines' striking employees to meet management today

  Striking employees of Kingfisher Airlines on Sunday said they will meet the management to find a solution to the 20-day strike that has crippled operations and led the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to suspend the carrier's licence.

• Kingfisher lockout: Crucial meeting between management, striking employees today

  With no end in sight to the 16-day impasse over a lockout and strike by its workers, Kingfisher Airlines management has called a meeting with their representatives on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to convince them to return to work.

• Kingfisher lockout: Management postpones meet with striking employees to Wednesday

  Kingfisher Airlines, which is on a lockout till October 20, has postponed its proposed meeting with employee representatives to Wednesday. A letter by the airline CEO yesterday had called the employees for a meeting in Mumbai on Monday to bring what he called closure to the current situation. The reason for the shift of date, reportedly, is that ex...

• 'Is it a crime to ask for salaries?' ask Kingfisher employees

  "Asking for salaries is not a crime ", shouts one banner. The other poster questions, "Is your party over Mr Mallya?" Yet another hollers, "Criminal Executive Officer, Go Away!"

• Kingfisher Airlines faces possible shutdown: Top 10 developments

  Kingfisher Airlines faces a possible shutdown with aviation regulator DGCA issuing it a show cause notice today asking why its license should not be suspended or cancelled. This after the carrier has had to extend its lockout till October 12 and said that its fleet would remain grounded till then. Talks with engineers and pilots on strike have fail...

• 'Is your party over Mr Mallya?' protesting Kingfisher Airlines employees ask

  Scores of Kingfisher Airlines employees, including pilots, engineers and technicians, on Friday took out a procession to the airlines office in Mumbai to demand their pending salaries and other dues.

• Kingfisher skids back to square one as staff meetings cancelled

  Kingfisher Airlines partial lockout was extended by a week, as the deadlock between workers and management continues. Engineers in Bangalore have refused to meet the CEO, sources said. The Bangalore and Chennai meetings stand cancelled as of now. Yesterday, only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi on Thursday, despite him sendi...

• Kingfisher crisis: Partial lockout extended till October 12 after talks fail

  With talks between workers and management failing, Kingfisher Airlines today extended its partial lockout till October 12. Only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi today, despite him sending an email last evening to set up meetings through the day; almost all of the 270 engineers on strike since Sunday boycotted the meeting.

• No end to Kingfisher crisis as deadlock continues: Latest Developments

  Kingfisher Airlines partial lockout was to have ended today, but that seems unlikely as the deadlock between workers and management continues. Only 24 pilots turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi today, despite him sending an email last evening to set up meetings through the day; almost all of the 270 engineers on strike since Sunday boyco...

• Kingfisher Airlines expects to start operations in 4-5 days, says executive: Latest Developments

  Kingfisher Airlines' partial lockout was to have ended today, but that seems unlikely. About 10 employees turned up to meet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal in Delhi today, despite him sending an email last evening to set up meetings in major centres through the day; almost all of the 270 engineers on strike since Sunday boycotted the meeting. A senior executiv...

• Kingfisher grounded: Will try to clear salaries within 'next few days', says CEO Sanjay Aggarwal

  The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is the regulatory body for airlines, has told top executives of Kingfisher Airlines that it will be allowed to operate only after ensuring its employees return to work. 270 of its engineers have been on strike since Sunday, triggering its latest crisis. After the meeting with the DGCA, Sanjay ...

• Kingfisher declares partial lockout till Thursday, aviation regulator summons CEO

  Kingfisher Airlines declared a partial lock-out till October 4 (Thursday) after a meeting of the management with its striking engineers ended without an outcome.

• Read: Letter from Kingfisher CEO to employees

  All operations at Kingfisher Airlines will be shut till Thursday, company's CEO Sanjay Agarwal said in a mail addressed to the employees.