Pilots

GoAir cancels 19 flights across destinations as airline grapples with shortage of aircraft, pilots; thousands of passengers stranded

GoAir has reported a series of mid-air incidents of engine glitches, leading to the grounding of planes with such engines.

IndiGo increases salaries of crew, non-crew employees after three years; firm says previous fiscal was challenging

IndiGo, which nearly controls half of the market, wiped of nearly three-fourths of its profit at Rs 191 crore in the December quarter.

Fear of job loss grips thousands of Jet Airways employees after airline’s temporary shutdown

Jet Airways pilots appealed for intervention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is facing wider criticism over the scarcity of jobs as he campaigns for re-election in polls now underway.

Jet Airways crisis: Airline's domestic pilots body serves legal notice, sets 14 April deadline to clear salary dues

Jet Airways domestic pilots body, the National Aviators Guild (NAG) on Tuesday served a legal notice to the airline, setting 14 April deadline for the new management to clear their salary dues

IndiGo sets eyes on aircraft crew exiting Jet Airways; plans to hire about 100 pilots to overcome shortage

The Gurugram-based IndiGo has already recruited about 130 expatriate pilots from all over the world to meet its aircraft crew shortage, the report said.

Jet Airways pilots body to hold annual meeting on Tuesday amid non-payment of salaries to employees

The meeting assumes significance as it comes in the backdrop of drastically reduced operations and non-payment of salaries to pilots along with engineers and other senior staff for more than three months now.

IndiGo pulls out 30 flights as pilot shortage continues to hamper operations, says cancellations to go on for a few more days

IndiGo has cancelled 30 flights on Tuesday due to the on-going pilot shortages. Most flights have been cancelled from Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.

IndiGo sees significant flight disruptions, cancels 32 planes on Monday; says Thursday's hailstorm upsets operations

In a statement, IndiGo said that due to a severe hailstorm in North India on 7 February, 11 IndiGo flights were diverted and that disrupted operations across its network the following day.

DGCA flags off concern: Jet Airways' non-payment of employee salaries could impact flight security

In December 2018, loss-making carrier Jet Airways failed to disburse the month's salary to some other categories of employees after defaulting on salary payment to its senior management along with pilots and engineers.

Cash-strapped Jet Airways fails to pay December salary to more employees besides pilots, engineers

The Naresh Goyal-controlled Jet Airways, which is part-owned by Gulf carrier Etihad, has not been paying salaries on time to about 15 percent of its over 16,000 employees since August last year due to a liquidity crunch.