PETALING JAYA: A screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation, uploaded onto social media, apparently reveals Rayani Air founder Ravi Alagendrran pleading with a pilot to fly for sake of the airline's staff.
The picture of the alleged conversation was shared by Ravi on his Facebook page on Saturday, after it had been posted by one of his Facebook friends.
In the apparent conversation, Ravi pleaded with the pilot to fly and asked him to consider the families of the 485 staff members whose salaries, he said, depended on the flights proceeding as scheduled.
"If passengers (are) stranded tomorrow, funders will pull out and 485 staff will suffer.
"Please, for the staff, do the flight and let me secure the investors tomorrow and get everybody's salary in by tomorrow," Ravi allegedly said.
"Captain, please, for the family of our staff, they have kids and babies and commitments, we can't do this to them," he added.
On Friday, it was reported that a pilot strike caused the airline to cancel a number of flights.
The following day, the airline announced that it would suspend operations effective immediately as part of the company's restructuring plan.
On Sunday, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai stated that the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) would issue a provisional suspension notice to Rayani Air on Monday.
He added that the DCA could revoke Rayani Air's licence but the airlines would be given "a chance to explain".
Source: The Star Online | Nation | 10 Apr. 2016
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