Debt-strapped Kingfisher Airlines has started paying salary for the month of May to its lower level staff and some cabin crew. But it has not decided about salary dues of pilots and engineers. Vijya Mallya-owned private carrier, had committed that the salary dues till May would be paid by Diwali.
As the management was not able to meet its promise, employees’ representatives had threatened to chalk out action plan if they did not receive the May salary by November 17. The regulator DGCA had suspended Kingfisher’s flying license on October 19 till further orders after a lockout and its failure to come up with a viable plan to revive the airline.
