Several hundred employees of India's beleaguered Jet Airways held a protest at Delhi airport on Saturday demanding to be paid and calling for the company to be rescued. Jet has been in a tailspin for months. All but around half a dozen of its 119 aircraft are grounded and all international flights are suspended until Monday. Once India's second-biggest airline by market share, the Mumbai-based firm has defaulted on loans and struggled to pay aircraft lessors and staff.
Thousands of customers have been stranded in recent weeks after hundreds of flights were cancelled, in some cases with little or no notice. "We need the infusion of funds today, not after one week when it's too late," said Raman Sharma, a pilot at the protest.