Cash-strapped airline, Kingfisher, will extend the date for resumption of operations, the company’s CEO, Sanjay Agarwal told presspersons after a meeting with representatives of its employees.
The talks, which were held at a faraway location (from Kingfisher House) to keep the media out, remained largely inconclusive.
“The talks were positive and the meeting went in the right direction,” Agarwal said.
"We will extend the date for restarting flights," he added.
The management and the employees would meet again, said one of the employee representatives after the meeting. "The date is not decided yet."
The pilots and other employees of the airline have gone on a strike protesting non-payment of salaries for seven months since March, 2012. "There is no climb-down in our demand for the payment of seven months' salary,” the employee representative said.
According to sources, the management has said they would pay the employees only one month's salary and then by the 7th of each month, salary for that month.