Kingfisher says flights operating normally

Ashwini Phadnis Updated - March 12, 2018 at 02:22 PM.

The airline had cancelled over 30 flights on Saturday as sections of employees stayed home to protest non-payment of wages for the last five months.

Kingfisher Airlines has claimed that all its scheduled flights were "operating normally".

On Saturday, the airline cancelled over 30 flights as sections of employees stayed home to protest non-payment of wages for the last five months.

It was not inmediately clear whether all employees who had stayed away from work on Saturday had reported back to duty.

Sources in the airline conceeded that some employees had indeed returned to work. There was no immediate news on whether the wages had been paid.

The cash-strapped airlines owes Rs 6,500 crore to 17 banks and reported a loss of Rs 1,151.52 crore during the fourth quarter of the last fiscal. It currently operates 100 daily services down from over 400 at the beginning of the year.

Published on July 15, 2012 06:30