{"id":306499,"date":"2018-12-03T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306499"},"modified":"2018-12-03T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:30:42","slug":"jet-airways-cancels-14-flights-as-pilots-report-sick-over-non-payment-of-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jet-airways-cancels-14-flights-as-pilots-report-sick-over-non-payment-of-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Airways cancels 14 flights as pilots report \u2018sick\u2019 over non-payment of dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306135 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight-.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jet Airways cancelled at least 14 flights on Sunday after some of its pilots reported \u201csick\u201d over non-payment of their dues, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAt least 14 flights have been cancelled due to some pilots reporting sick. They are protesting against non-payment of salary and the indifferent attitude of the National Aviator\u2019s Guild (NAG) in taking up the issue with the management.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, later the airline has clarified saying that the flights were cancelled due to an unforeseen operational circumstance not pilot non-cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The airline said in a statement, \u201cthe flights were cancelled due to an unforeseen operational circumstance and not pilot non-cooperation&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NAG is a domestic pilot\u2019s body of Jet Airways, representing over 1,000 pilots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since August, the airline has been defaulting on salary disbursement to its pilots and engineer due to severe cash crunch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jet Airways cancelled at least 14 flights on Sunday after some of its pilots reported \u201csick\u201d over non-payment of their dues, sources said. \u201cAt least 14 flights have been cancelled due to some pilots reporting sick. They are protesting against non-payment of salary and the indifferent attitude of the National Aviator\u2019s Guild (NAG) in taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10038,5155,10039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306500,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306499\/revisions\/306500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}