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| September 10, 2009 | Jet Airways pilots strike continues, 233 flights cancelled | | New Delhi: The Jet Airways rebellion continued for the third consecutive
day on Thursday with 233 flights being cancelled by the airline following
a row between the airline management and its pilots over the sacking of two of
their senior colleagues last month. The pilots have indicated that their
agitation will continue till their two sacked colleagues are given their jobs
back. They also insisted that their trade union rights could not be curtailed.
The stalemate continued despite five hours of talks between members of the National
Aviators Guild (NAG), which is spearheading the stir, and the management through
an interlocutor in Delhi. The company does not recognize the NAG and has termed
the agitation illegal. Jet Airways yesterday had
to suspend all of its flights between the UAE and India after almost half of its
pilots did not report for duty. The management has sacked ten pilots so far. The management and striking pilots failed to meet the Labour Commissioner on Thursday to resolve their dispute. The pilots, however, promised to show up on Friday at the Labour Commissioner's office.
The Jet Airways ground staff on Thursday said they were behind the management on the issue of the pilots’ strike. The ground staff said they are against the strike and appealed to the pilots to end it, as they feared it would impact on
their jobs. Earlier, Senior Jet Airways officials
had said that talks with the striking pilots were still on and there was no breakthrough
as yet. Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal met Union Minister of State for Civil
Aviation Praful Patel and briefed him about the crisis on Wednesday. Goyal has
reportedly appealed to the Government to step in to resolve the crisis, though
Patel refused to comment when asked what was being down to end the stalemate.
Jet Airways yesterday had to suspend all of its flights between the UAE and India
after almost half of its pilots did not report for duty. The management has sacked
ten pilots so far. | |
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