Kingfisher Airline's ATR
operation from Delhi was crippled following a section of its
engineers going on strike on Wednesday night.
This is the fourth time engineers have struck work since May over demands of payment of salaries.
"As of now four Kingfisher flights have been cancelled due to engineers not joining duty demanding March salary, which has still not been paid to them along with a majority of airline's employees," sources said here.
The
Vijay Mallya-owned airline operates short haul destinations such as Chandigarh, Dharamshala, Dehradun, among others with ATR.
Earlier this week, the airline's Mumbai-based pilots had also gone on strike on similar issues, forcing
Kingfisher to use the services of manager-cadre engineers to certify aircraft for operations.
Under the Director General of Civial Aviation (DGCA) norms, an aircraft can't take off unless its air worthiness is certified by the airline engineers after regular safety check-ups.
Since April, Kingfisher employees have
been striking work at regular intervals . A section of Kingfisher pilots had even gone on strike late in August to protest salary delays.
The debt-ridden airline, struggling for survival and facing funding drought for more than a year now, has not paid salaries to most of its employees since March.
With inputs from PTI 
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