NEW DELHI: Even as over 1,000 Jet Airways pilots, who haven’t been paid for the past four months, have decided not to fly from April 1, the carrier late on Saturday expressed its inability to clear the dues immediately. Jet held that it will only be able to clear the remaining 85.7 per cent of the pilots’ December pay.
With the change in Jet’s ownership earlier this week, it was expected that the airline clears salary dues of pilots by March 29. “A part of the expected interim funding from SBI was supposed to be actioned on March 29. Unfortunately, the fund transfer has not taken place, and there is also no update on salary payment from the management. The collective decision of pilots taken at Mumbai and Delhi open house effective 1 April prevails,” Karan Chopra, president of Jet pilots’ association National Aviators Guild (NAG), had said in a communication to members late on Friday.
