Bitter KFA staff turns to UB-Group owned RCB for support

Just hours before Kingfisher Airline’s chairman Vijay Mallya wrote a letter to his employees, assuring them of resuming salary payments by next week, a section of the debt-laden airline’s staff who have not been paid their dues for the last four months requested the Royal Challengers Bangalore team to boycott the IPL matches.

If reports are to be believed, the employees of the beleaguered airline have not been paid since December 2011 and are now urging the RCB team - owned by United Breweries- to support them by not playing in the forthcoming Indian Premier League.

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The airline’s pilots, engineers, ground staff and cabin crew are likely to protest outside the airline’s head office in Mumbai. According to CNN IBN, the staff will also protest late payments near the Mumbai airport.

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Meanwhile, a day after the airline’s accounts were unfrozen, Mallya in a letter to his employees has promised to pay junior staff their salaries before Easter on 4 April, while pilots and engineers will be paid on 9 and 10 April.