Beleaguered Kingfisher airlines,which has declared a lockout till October 20, will hold ameeting with the employees' representatives tomorrow in Mumbaito resolve the deadlock over non-payment of salary dues.
Airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written a letter callingemployees for the meeting, airline sources said.
Employees have been on a strike demanding payment ofsalaries of seven months and have been insisting that dues becleared before they resume duty.
This has forced the management to repeatedly extend thelockout and suspension of all flight operation from October 4.
With all its flights cancelled after the lockout wasdeclared, aviation regulator DGCA had asked liquor baron VijayMallya-owned carrier to stop selling tickets following reportsthat it had started accepting bookings last week before endingits lockout.
Kingfisher had declared a lockout on September 28 tillOctober four following the strike, cancelling its entireflight schedule, and extended it till October 12 later. Thishas now been extended till October 20.
On October 5, DGCA issued a show-cause notice toKingfisher asking why its flying license should not besuspended or cancelled as it had grounded its entire fleet andfailed to offer safe, efficient and reliable service. It hasgiven the airline 15 days to reply.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has also said theairline would have to submit a concrete plan to DGCA on safetyand salary payments, before it is allowed to resume flights.
Kingfisher has been saddled with a loss of Rs 8,000 croreand a debt burden of another over Rs 7,000 crore, a large partof which it has not serviced since January.