New Delhi/Mumbai: The Air India management today toughened its stance against its agitating pilots, who fly abroad, by moving a contempt of court application in the Delhi High Court for not joining duty from today as ordered by the court.
It also terminated nine more pilots who did not report to duty on the third day of the agitation, taking the total number of pilots who have been sacked to 44.
The agitation of the pilots is slowly impacting the passengers with as many as 21 flights, including 11 domestic, of the 410 daily flights got cancelled today.
AI, which operates 120 international flights daily, has already lost over Rs 15 crore in the first two days.
Bracing itself for a long war with the pilots, AI, which had stopped taking bookings for international flights for the next five days, was forced to extend it till May 15.
10/05/12 Business Standard
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