While there are moves to bailout the ailing airlines using public funds, Kingfisher is offering free wine club memberships and vouchers for premium members
Eminent social activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey have written to the Prime Minister, expressing citizens’ concern about the bailout using public funds, and have questioned the logic of bailing out a private airlines while letting Air India, the national carrier languish.
“We urge you to ensure that taxpayers’ money is not spent to bail out Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airline. We suggest the following as a possible solution to prevent more public money being pumped into Kingfisher and end the increasing harassment to the flying public. We demand that Mr Mallya be forced to bring in funds, that there must be a change in management at Kingfisher Airlines and that aviation policy must be re-examined,” says the letter.
If anyone wants to support their cause or offer suggestions, they can send their comments to the following address:
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey;
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan(MKSS),
Village- Devdungri, Post-Barar, Dist-Rajsamand, Pin-313341.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Meanwhile Kingfisher, on the other hand, is busy offering free wine club memberships and gift vouchers to some premium club members, instead of clearing the overdue salaries of its airline staff.
Shortly after Dr Mallya issued a touching letter to Kingfisher Airlines employees, admitting that the matter of their overdue salary is of ‘personal sorrow’ to him, and promised that he is trying to arrange for funds. Kingfisher sent out mails to ‘King Club Members’ offering free memberships to ‘Wine Society of India’ and a voucher worth Rs2,000 redeemable within a week. On completing the sign up form today, the members will get ‘1,000 king miles free’ and ‘free wine course and tasting’.
Here is the letter sent by the activists to the Prime Minister...
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I fully appriciate the concern shown for spending our money to bail out kingfisher airlines. I am also of the opinion that our money should not be use for such things. Our problems are poverty and our money must be spent on iradication of it. And not for bail out
Narendra Bagul
*What is the point of going to the PM, does the Government lacks an efficient Administrator ...??
*Please recollect when "Jet-Air" was laying-off its Staff & Raj-Thakre had re-instated them back, how did they manage then, similarly there are SOLUTIONS, which needs to b worked-out & finally if Mallya Vijay gives-up than, allow TATA's to funtion, who had initiated initially & it was then, Deve-Gowda n Mulayam Yadav who roped-in Fresh-Face in "Airways", who had no-past experience & any track-record to show (correct me, if i m wrong) ...???
reg.,
Chandra
THAT is the larger picture in India. WHO is now pulling the strings, who runs our economy and infrastructure, actually, and on whose behalf, please?
As far as the Kingfisher loans are concerned, it is also more important to nail down those responsible in governance and the banks and the oil companies and elsewhere, who brought things to this pass.
I support your move, and suggest that a larger move be made to pin down those responsible, since this is a bigger scam than 2G and CWG. It must also include the private airports and other aviation infrastructure issues, as well as an even bigger investigation into how and why the business of international air cargo to/from India, which in terms of value is higher than passenger aviation, has been almost totally lost to non-Indian operators.
Humbly submitted . . . VM
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