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Jet Airways: Delaying staff's salary may result in security risk, says DGCA

The airline has not been paying salaries to its employees, including senior management, pilots, staff and crew for over two months now

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With mounting losses, Jet has defaulted on lease and vendor payments. Its lessors are contemplating repossessing the planes they had lent

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Aviation watchdog DGCA, in an audit of the cash-strapped Jet Airways, has cautioned that non-payment of salaries is a concern and may result in potential safety risk, the Economic Times reported.

The airline has not been paying salaries to its employees, including senior management, pilots, staff and crew for over two months now. 

The airline, which defaulted on principal and interest payments due in December, has a debt burden of over Rs 8,000 crore and is discussing fresh fund infusion and restructuring with the lenders.

“Non-payment of salaries is a concern and the DGCA audit flags it off as a

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