Ex-Kingfisher Airlines Pilots Move Karnataka High Court Over Pending Salaries

Pilots of the defunct Kingfisher Airlines have approached the Karnataka High Court seeking a direction to the court-appointed official liquidator to disburse their long-pending salaries. 

The Court directed the petitioners, Captain Mukesh Singh Shaktawat & Captain Desmond D’mello, to serve notice to the liquidator, scheduling the next hearing for April 8, 2026. 

Shaktawat, who served the airline for nine years, claimed dues amounting to approximately ₹1.39 crore.

Despite the liquidator finalizing the payable amounts in 2022-23 and the SBI-led consortium recovering nearly ₹14,000 crore from asset sales, the petitioners alleged that only provident fund money has been released so far.

[Mukesh Singh Shaktawat & Anr. v. Official Liquidator]