Jet Airways crisis: What we know so far

Cash-strapped Jet Airways on Sunday averted a deeper crisis after its pilots body, the National Aviatior's Guild (NAG), deferred its "no flying" call to a later date. On Monday, the management is scheduled to meet the lenders. Earlier in the day, the guild, decided to stop flying from April 15 in protest against non-payment of salaries since March. NAG has around 1,100 pilots as its members.

Jet Airways crisis: Top points

On Sunday evening, the pilots body announced postponement of its "no pay no work" call for the second time in less than two weeks. NAG said it wanted to give more time to the company which is struggling to survive due to severe paucity of cash.
The airline has cancelled its long-haul, west-bound operations to and from Amsterdam, London's Heathrow and Paris till April 16.
It has been operating less than 50 flights per day with a fleet of six to seven planes.
The airline has withdrawn services from SAARC and Asean routes for an indefinite period. "Jet Airways has currently suspended operations to SAARC and ASEAN destinations, as well as to Toronto and Paris from Chennai and back," the airlines said in a statement.
The airline announced the resignation of one of its independent directors, Rajshree Pathy, from the company for other commitments. Pathy resigned with effect from April 13, according to a regulatory filing by the airline.
"This is to inform that Rajshree Pathy, has submitted her resignation as an Independent Director of the Company with effect from April 13, 2019, owing to time constraints on account of her other current commitments," it said.
The airline's pilots along with engineers and senior staff were last paid for December, 2018. The airline has also defaulted on the March salary of other categories of employees as well.
Last month, an SBI-led consortium of lenders had taken management control of the airline post a debt-recast deal, following which the lenders had proposed to infuse as much as Rs 1,500 crore to the carrier to keep it afloat till the time it gets a investor.
The NAG had in late March called for no flying from April 1 over non-payment of salaries. However, on March 31, it deferred the agitation to April 15, saying it wanted to give additional time to the new management to settle down prior to addressing its pending salaries issue.
According to sources, the airline has also stopped accepting bookings for its Mumbai-Paris flight until June 10.
Following complaints by passengers regarding lack of information on cancellation and non-receipt of refunds, the civil aviation secretary had Friday said the Centre has asked Jet Airways to inform passengers 48 hours in advance about flight cancellations, and take their problems into consideration.

NAG statement

"It has come to our notice that there is a critical meeting planned tomorrow (Monday) morning with the airline management and SBI. In light of the meeting, the members have requested, through their team leaders, that the call of 'no pay no work' be deferred to give the airline a chance of survival," the Guild said in the communication.

"Accordingly, as requested, the NAG Committee would like to inform all that the decision stands deferred for the time being," it said.

What Jet Airways says

"This is to inform you that Rajshree Pathy has submitted her resignation as an Independent Director of the company with effect from April 13, owing to time constraints and on account of her other current commitments," said the Jet Airways.

What to expect today

The Monday meeting with lenders is reportedly expected to take a final decision on the quantum of funds to be infused immediately to avert a possible shut down. A meeting between the airline management and its major lender SBI last Friday could not take a decision on the fund infusion issue.