Jet staff future still up in the air with no surety on career prospects

Jet Airways is flying 30-35 planes now and plans to operationalise an additional 40 grounded planes by April end

Jet Airways has been facing turbulence for the past few months resulting in job cuts, delayed salaries, grounded fleet, and cancelled flights. But even as it prepares to restore operations, funding concerns persist among its staff over the future of the airline and their own careers. 

“Even if operations are normalised, there is no surety on growth and career prospects in the airline,” said a Jet employee.

Increments are ruled out now as the airline can ill afford to increase its wage bill. There is also a possibility of layoffs. Jet has around 15,000 staff on its rolls and the