FM assures to redress KFA staff salary issues: Sources

Salary--related issues just don't seem to end at Kingfisher Airlines. The carrier which is struggling hard to take to the skies will have to face the wrath of its employees who have not been paid salaries for around ten months now.

According to exclusive CNBC-TV18 sources, KFA employees on Wednesday submitted a list of grievances to finance minister P Chidambaram who has assured action on issues that are impacting them.

Employees had on Tuesday even protested outside the minister's office for not being paid salaries for many months.

The issue of delayed salaries dates back to 2011 when the carrier was operating at full length. The airline even lost many senior pilots and commanders to Gulf carriers due to either non-payment of salaries or rationalisation of payments based on performance linked pay which was unacceptable to them.

At that time even the Income Tax department had even freezed KFA's bank accounts on non-payment of dues but later unfreezed them on assurance that they will repay amount at regular intervals.

The situation later went out of control when the airline shut partial operations on regular staff protest and also due to liquidity concerns which led to complete closure of KFA in October 2012.