We are qualified to get jobs anywhere: Sacked Jet Airways pilot

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pilots of various airlines are looking at forming a single union to collectively air their grievances. I don't know why there is so much fuss over our salaries," said Girish Kaushik, a senior pilot with Jet Airways.

September 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - In a bid to lure back passengers, Jet Airways and Jet Airways Konnect have announced a 50 percent discount in fares for five days from Monday. An official spokesperson for the airline confirmed this Sunday evening, hours after the airline started limping back to normalcy after the crippling five-day agitation of its pilots was called off around midnight.

September 13th, 2009 India's Jet Airways pilots end strike after 5 daysNEW DELHI — Pilots at India's Jet Airways resumed work Sunday ending a five-day strike that led to the cancellation of more than 800 flights, company officials said. The standoff between the airline and its pilots ended late Saturday after the company agreed to reinstate four pilots who were fired for trying to form a pilots' union.

September 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - A crippling strike by Jet Airways pilots entered the fifth day Saturday, leading to the cancellation of 180 flights including 25 on the international route, officials said. There was no word when the strike, which has hit hard the aviation sector, will end.

September 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - Jet Airways cancelled 180 flights, including 25 international, Saturday on the fifth day of a strike by its pilots. According to an announcement early Saturday, the airline would operate only two flights on the international route.

September 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - The management and striking pilots of Jet Airways failed to meet the Labour Commissioner on Thursday to resolve their dispute. The pilots, however, promised to show up on Friday at the Labour Commissioner's office.

September 10th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - The Jet Airways ground staff on Thursday said they were behind the management on the issue of the pilots' strike. The ground staff said they are against the strike and appealed to the pilots to end it, as they feared it would impact on their jobs.

September 9th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Sacked Jet Airways pilots on Wednesday said that the Constitution of India empowered them with the right to strike if the management was indulging in unfair practices. Sam Thomas, one of the sacked pilots, told a press conference here that there was no question of disbanding the union that they formed and that the airlines management has maligned the image of the pilots.

September 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - Senior Jet Airways officials on Wednesday said that talks with the striking pilots were still on and there was no breakthrough as yet. A total of 186 flights -- 154 domestic and 32 international -- had been cancelled or affected throughout its network, the officials said, adding that 432 of the 760 pilots were on strike.

September 8th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Some 20,000 air passengers in India, including hundreds of foreign visitors, were severely inconvenienced as nearly 400 pilots of Jet Airways went on "sick leave" Tuesday, causing cancellation of nearly 200 flights and chaos at airports. Flights out of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai were in a shambles as a result of the pilots' mass "sick leave".

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taking a tough stand, Jet Airways Tuesday sacked three more pilots while talks between the management and the agitating employees are yet to take place. Earlier in the day, the government had asked the airline to sort out the issue, as 400 of its pilots went on mass "sick leave", so that passengers were not put to inconvenience.

September 8th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Some 20,000 air passengers in India, including hundreds of foreigners, were severely inconvenienced after nearly 400 pilots of Jet Airways went on "sick leave" Tuesday, causing cancellation of 129 flights and chaos at airports. Flights out of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai bore the brunt of this mass leave.

September 8th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Some 400 pilots of Jet Airways proceeded on a mass sick leave Tuesday morning, resulting in cancellations of over 100 flights, inconvenience to thousands of passengers and chaos at several airports across the country. Flights out of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai bore the brunt of this mass leave, as per reports from these centres.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jet Airways has sacked two of its senior pilots for joining a newly formed union. Balaraman and Sam Thomas were sacked for joining the National Aviators Guild - the pilots union - which was registered with the labour commissioner in Mumbai last month.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Private carrier Jet Airways has terminated the services of over 50 trainee engineers as part of its cost-cutting measures, the airline said Saturday. "As a part of our cost restructuring exercise and in order to meet the challenges of the downturn in the aviation sector, Jet Airways has found it necessary to issue notices of termination to trainee junior technicians, Ragini Chopra, a spokesperson of the airline, said in a statement.