Low flier

Maybe the clamours for Vijay Mallya to scale back his lifestyle in view of the losses his airline is making are being heard. Or maybe he wants to send his employees, who have been unpaid for months, a message. So, for his first meeting with the airline's mutinous pilots, Mallya chose not an elaborate five-star hotel, which would have been in keeping with his style, but a small banquet hall in south Delhi.