Jet Airways’ pilots mass sick-leave make the once glorious Indian airline brand look confused

If you’re in the airline industry, you must have heard about the misery of Jet Airways in the last few days. Half their pilots went on a “mass sick-leave”, causing almost 200 flights to be canceled per day, inconveniencing over 20,000 passengers resulting in absolute mayhem at the major airports, most of which tend to be chaotic on a good day.

Not very long ago, everyone was swooning over the re-birth of the romance of travel and airlines in India leading the pack. Business week had good words to say about Jet Airways, and even here on SimpliFlying, I did interviews with senior Jet executives.

Unfortunately, after two years of heavy losses, the brand was already tattering. A few months back, there was the employee sacking saga, and now, the mass sick-leave by the pilots is ruining the brand image built by the founder with great care over time. Sad but true.

And nowhere was this paradox more evident than on the front page of a leading Indian daily’s website. See it for yourself.

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