Jet Airways lays off 850 employees | 1000 more likely to be shown the door
15Oct2008 Filed under: Latest News Author: maddy
Jet Airways, India’s top private airline, has laid off about 850 employees due to falling air travel and soaring costs. As per reports coming in another 400 is likely to be laid off. This is one of the largest lay-offs in the history of Indian aviation. Cabin crew members under probation would account for most of the cuts, while the Business Standard said the layoffs would include cabin crew, pilots, ground staff and management.
Latest update:
Raj Thackeray’s MNS has threatened that they wont allow any Jet Flights from Mumbai if they do not take the employees back
Vijay Mallya – Kingfisher has no plans on Job cut, but justifies Jet’s stand viewing current crises in the Aviation Industry.
Jet Airways on Wednesday said that 1,900 of the 13,000 staff were being given notices of separation. Yesterday, Jet had announced that 850 cabin crew would be given the pink slip.
Jet and Kingfisher, along with their acquired airlines, have a combined strength of 19,000 employees, a fleet of 189 aircraft serving 1,009 daily flights, of which 82 are on international routes.
Source: Time Now - By January 3000 employees will be relieved.
Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal has said that only those whose jobs were not confirmed have been laid off. He went onto say that the process will allow them to allocate resources to existing employees.
On Monday Jet Airways and No.2 private carrier Kingfisher Airlines, which between them have about 60 percent of the domestic market, agreed on an alliance to cut costs through code-sharing, sharing of ticketing, ground services, joint fuel management, crew training and utilisation.
Amid the current crisis faced by the aviation industry, Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel has acknowledged that it is a tough time for the entire industry worldwide. He, however, maintained there would be no intervention from civil aviation ministry in case of sackings by airlines.
- Tags: airlines, Indian aviation, Jet airways, Kingfisher, lay-offs
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Rightly said Pankaj. I totally agree with you that its the employees who are being sacked in every field these days. The top line executives are no where bothered about all this coz it isnt effecting them.
Think about the families of those 850 employees. How many of them would have been having their 2 time food based on this employee’s salary. Indian economy is going to DOGS!! Its high time the sleeping Indian Government think and act and get back some effective gain in the economy.
I also agree with you if at all they have to send them, let them do it with respect. This is highly not acceptable.
When Mr.Goyal has big plans of merging with Kingfisher, couldn’t he think of his own employees? What sort of humanity he is showing being the owner of such big aviation company? Real bad. Even I protest and hereby refuse to fly in their airline…
Shocking! I was listening to television and some of the sacked employee said this:
Why cant they cut the cost on food, beverages and newspaper instead of cutting employees? One of them said that newspaper in different languages is a waste, food are wasted as well and there is no recycle or reuse scheme!
Further why termination notice, they could have asked them to, resign gracefully!
Its with every big company, when crises comes only employees are sacked to cut the cost, why not cut hefty pay packages of the big fact executives who do less and the juniors burn themselves for the goodwill of the company.
Not a good act Mr. Goyal, I refuse to fly your airline as a part of my protest against your act