Kingfisher Airlines staff end strike, agree to resume work with immediate effect

The 26-day deadlock in Kingfisher Airlines was resolved on Thursday with the management agreeing to pay four months salary dues by December end to the striking employees who decided to resume work with immediate effect.

“All our employees will resume work today, including the pilots and engineers. We will now on continue to work together,” airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal told reporters after holding separate meetings with striking pilots and engineers at the airport here.

Engineers’ representative Subhash Chandra Mishra said, “we are joining duty from today. We have accepted the management’s proposal for a staggered payment of four months salary dues by December.” A representative of the striking pilots also said they will resume work immediately.

–PTI