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Air India flights impacted by executive pilots stir

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29-Sep-2009 Air India’s operations continued to be impacted on the fourth day of the agitation by Executive Pilots.

Fourteen international flights out of 29 has to be cancelled as 72 Executive Pilots of erstwhile Air India reported sick since yesterday. The flights affected were - the NonStop flights to New York from Delhi and Mumbai; flights to London from Delhi and Mumbai; flights to Chicago from Delhi and flights to Singapore from Mumbai. The other flights affected included the Amritsar-London-Toronto and Ahmedabad-Frankfurt.

On the domestic front, Air India will be operating 101 out of 197 scheduled flights today. 77 flights will be cancelled due to non availability of Executive Pilots who have been reporting sick since September 26, 2009. So far, 116 Executive Pilots of NACIL (I) have reported sick thus forcing Air India to curtail its flight schedule.

Meanwhile, Air India is keeping its channels of communication with Executive Pilots open so that those wishing to have their concerns addressed/clarified can do so. It may be recalled that Mr Arvind Jadhav, Chairman and Managing Director, Air India, had appealed to the pilots yesterday to restore normalcy at the earliest as cancellation of flights was inconveniencing passengers and harming the airline's interests.