Jet Airways lays off 850

MUMBAI: The largest lay-off in the history of Indian aviation is expected to take place on Wednesday when as many as 850 Jet Airways cabin crew me
mbers, mostly on probation, will receive termination letters. The airline couriered these letters late on Tuesday night.

The tremors brought about by the worst downturn yet in the airline industry were felt on Tuesday itself, hours before the first Jet Airways flight of the day took off. Said a crew member, “About three and a half hours before a flight, the office transport reaches your home to pick you up. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, hundreds of cabin crew members in Mumbai who were rostered for early morning flights waited in their uniforms to be picked up.” When the worried flight attendants called up the airline dispatch office, they were told they had been de-rostered till further notice.

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