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1,100 Jet Airways pilots decide not to fly from Monday over 'non-payment of salary dues': Pilots body

The pilots, along with engineers and senior management, have not received salaries since January.

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Around 1,100 pilots of the crisis-hit Jet Airways' pilots body National Aviator's Guild (NAG) have decided not to fly from 10 am Monday in protest against "non-payment of salary dues", a source said Sunday.

The airline, however, said its flight schedule would not be impacted by the action of its pilots' union.

The pilots, along with engineers and senior management, have not received salaries since January. The debt-ridden carrier also has not paid March salary to employees of other categories.

"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 the NAG will stop flying from 10 am Monday," said the Guild source.

In a statement to PTI, a Jet Airways spokesperson said, "The current schedule of flights will not be impacted." 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 led its founder chairman Naresh Goyal to quit.

In the last two days, it has operated six-seven planes per day only as its entire fleet almost is grounded due to non-payment of rentals to lessors and paucity of cash to purchase jet fuel from the oil companies, which snapped supplies thrice in last more than a week demanding payment.

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