Air India to operate more flights to deal with Gulf summer rush

Air India has said that it will operate additional flights to cope up with the summer rush as a number of flights are either rescheduled or cancelled due to the rolling effect of the pilot strike which ended earlier this month.
Abhay Pathak, Air India's Regional Manager for Gulf, Middle East and Africa, said they were planning to introduce special flights. "We would come to know in a day or two about the schedule of the flights," he said.
The number of Air India flights to the UAE has gone down from 48 to 28 per week due to the strike. The 58-day strike by the pilots over issues relating to career progression, was called off on July 3 after the airline's management assured Delhi High Court they would sympathetically consider their grievances, including reinstatement. Air India reportedly lost more than Dh394 million (Rs600 crore) due to the industrial action.
26/07/12 Fareed Rahman/The National

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