New Delhi: As Kingfisher Airlines feels the heat from the ongoing crisis, CEO Sanjay Aggarwal is expected to appear before the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday to explain why flights are being cancelled.
Kingfisher Airlines cancelled flights for three days in a row without informing the aviation regulator. Forty flights were cancelled on Monday itself.
Meanwhile, woes for those who've booked Kingfisher Airlines flights could continue for the fourth day in a row.
Sources also say that CEO will explain why passengers were not informed about the cancellation.
The DGCA said that the airline operator must inform them if scheduled flights are being cancelled.
Talking to CNN-IBN, a defiant Dr Vijay Mallya said that he will not close down Kingfisher unless the government forces him to. The Kingfisher Airlines Chairman
said that they were doing their best to handle the crisis and that they were doing their best to raise money.
Mallya also said that the taxman must defreeze their accounts in order for airline to operate.
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh put the onus squarely on Vijay Mallya to mobilise his own funds.
Earlier on Monday, Kingfisher Airlinesalso claimed that it will give the salaries to its employees in a week's time, blaming "some large unexpected payments" for the delay in salary disbursement. The CEO of the airlines also hinted that the disruption of flights operations will continue for one more week.
In a message to the employees of Kingfisher Airlines, CEO Sanjay Aggarwal said, "We got hit by some large unexpected payments which had to be addressed on an emergency basis. It will take us another week before we complete the salary disbursements."
"For some of you working at the airports, we have arranged a cash advance of Rs 5000," added Aggarwal.
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