Clear our salary dues at the earliest, Jet Airways pilots request SBI chief

NEW DELHI: Jet Airways pilots’ union has asked State Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar, noticed as the airline’s new father or mother angel, to make sure that their salaries don't seem to be delayed to any extent further. The airline’s pilots, at the side of plane upkeep engineers (AMEs) and senior management have salary dues of almost four months now. The National Aviators Guild (NAG), union of pilots, had threatened the previous management that it might prevent flying from April 1. But now with a brand new meantime gadget in place, they see hope that Jet will steer clear of a Kingfisher-like destiny.

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In a chain of tweets posted within the early hours, Mallya said, "Happy to see that PSU Banks have bailed out Jet Airways saving jobs, connectivity and enterprise. Only wish the same was done for Kingfisher." Goyal at the side of his wife Anita stepped down on Monday following which lenders agreed to pump in Rs 1,500 crore to bail out the financially airline.

“Your soothing words on a TV channel praising the pilots for his or her loyalty and willpower and assuring them that our efforts won't go waste are deeply appreciated by means of all of the group. Your kind words display that the hardships we, and our fellow AMEs, have undergone have no longer long gone in useless. Despite the severe monetary difficulties and uncertainty over our future that a large number of our colleagues had been going through over the past few months, the pilots have no longer wavered,” NAG basic secretary captain Tej Sood said within the letter to Kumar.

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The airline’s outgoing chairman Naresh Goyal’s place is likely to be taken by means of a former SBI leader — Janki Ballabh and A Ok Purwar had been tapped for the location. Jet’s day-to-day operations will probably be sorted by means of an meantime management committee. The panel could be supervised by means of the board of directors, which can come with two lender nominees, with the fortify of McKinsey & Co.

“It is our humble request to you to alleviate one of the crucial hardships that we and the AMEs had been going through by means of making sure that the Jet Airways management does no longer further extend the release of our pending salaries and clears our dues at the earliest. We would even be grateful if you should spare us some time.. to offer us an concept of the roadmap to recovery. This will lend a hand us in rebuilding self assurance among our pilots and reassuring them that the uncertainty is behind us. We guarantee you, and all different stakeholders, of our persevered fortify. The pilots stay committed to the airline and would depart no stone unturned to make sure that our airline returns to its former glory,” Sood says.

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Now, some other twist in destiny has taken him out of Jet 28 years after launching the airline, and whether he or his family could make a comeback continues to be noticed. In 1967, Goyal joined a trip agency run by means of his mother’s uncle in Connaught Place the place he earned about Rs 300 a month.

NAG represents about 1,100 Jet Airways pilots.