Air India pilot strike enters 4th day: six flights from IGI cancelled

New Delhi Air India’s operations out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport and other airports across the country continued to be affected on the fourth day of agitation by the national carrier’s executive pilots. While the airline has decided not to book any new passengers till further notice, six out of the 22 flights scheduled to fly out of Delhi on Tuesday had to be cancelled.
Over 60 executive pilots of the erstwhile Air India reported sick between Monday and Tuesday morning. So far, a total of 180 pilots of NACIL (I) have gone on sick leave, forcing Air India to curtail its flight schedule.
Affected flights included non-stop flights to New York and London from Delhi and Mumbai, and flights to Chicago from Delhi.The number of bookings has gone down from 32,000 to 14,000 per day and the airline is incurring losses up to 30 per cent of the total revenue of Rs 40 crore every day.
30/09/09 ExpressIndia

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