<p>Kingfisher Airlines today cancelled over 30 flights from Delhi and Mumbai due to a strike by a section of its employees protesting non-payment of salary.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While 22 flights of the airline were cancelled from Delhi, nine were cancelled from Mumbai, sources said.<br /><br />A section of its employees, including pilots and engineers are not reporting for work to protest non-payment of salary, they said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the board of the near-bankrupt airlines is meeting in New Delhi today to discuss finances ahead of the announcement of quarterly results.<br /><br />"The airlines' board is meeting at a five-star hotel in south-west Delhi this afternoon to discuss finances," the sources said.<br /><br />The airline's operations have been disrupted time and again since April when pilots called off work protesting salary delays.<br /><br />Kingfisher Airlines, which has been facing fund-crunch for almost a year now, has not paid salary to its staff for the past five months. A sizeable number of its employees have not been paid since February.<br /><br />"We just can't work without being paid for such a long time. Hence the decision (to strike work)," a pilot has said.<br /><br />The decision of airline employees to go on agitation coincides with the monsoon session of the Parliament that starts today.<br /><br />"We hope that the strike will pull the attention of Parliament and our plight and misery echoes in political corridors," an employee said. </p>
<p>Kingfisher Airlines today cancelled over 30 flights from Delhi and Mumbai due to a strike by a section of its employees protesting non-payment of salary.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While 22 flights of the airline were cancelled from Delhi, nine were cancelled from Mumbai, sources said.<br /><br />A section of its employees, including pilots and engineers are not reporting for work to protest non-payment of salary, they said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the board of the near-bankrupt airlines is meeting in New Delhi today to discuss finances ahead of the announcement of quarterly results.<br /><br />"The airlines' board is meeting at a five-star hotel in south-west Delhi this afternoon to discuss finances," the sources said.<br /><br />The airline's operations have been disrupted time and again since April when pilots called off work protesting salary delays.<br /><br />Kingfisher Airlines, which has been facing fund-crunch for almost a year now, has not paid salary to its staff for the past five months. A sizeable number of its employees have not been paid since February.<br /><br />"We just can't work without being paid for such a long time. Hence the decision (to strike work)," a pilot has said.<br /><br />The decision of airline employees to go on agitation coincides with the monsoon session of the Parliament that starts today.<br /><br />"We hope that the strike will pull the attention of Parliament and our plight and misery echoes in political corridors," an employee said. </p>
