Over 1,000 Jet Airways Pilots Not to Fly from Monday Due to Unpaid Salaries

Over 1,000 Jet Airways Pilots Not to Fly from Monday Due to Unpaid Salaries
Jet Airways aircraft are seen parked on the tarmac at Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, on March 25, 2019. Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images
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NEW DELHI, India—More than a thousand pilots of India’s debt-laden Jet Airways will not fly from Monday, April 15, as they have not been paid salaries for the past three months, the President of the National Aviators Guild said on Sunday.

Saddled with more than $1.2 billion of bank debt, the airline has been teetering for weeks and has yet to receive a loan of about $217 million from its lenders as part of a rescue deal agreed in late March.