"This trimming of the workforce has been necessitated by the ongoing rationalisation of the airline's operations," the airline said.
"As part of its cost restructuring exercise and in order to meet the challenges of the downturn in the aviation sector, Jet Airways has found it necessary to issue notices of termination to the trainee junior technicians of the engineering department. These personnel are on fixed-term contracts and the notices are being issued in accordance with the terms of their contracts and in compliance with law," an airline spokesperson said.
"These personnel are on fixed term contracts and the notices are being issued in accordance with the terms of their contracts and in compliance with law. This trimming of the workforce has been necessitated by the ongoing rationalisation of the airline's operations," the spokesperson added.
Jet Airways had posted a loss of over Rs.1,000 crore (Rs 10 biilion) during the last fiscal. The airline had last year also sacked about 1,900 of its employees, but later took them back under pressure from different quarters.
