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AI pilots strike enters 5th day: 15 more flights cancelled

Air India board to meet today; pilots' strike enters Day 21
Mumbai: Air India board will meet here on Monday to discuss the nearly three-week-old strike by pilots and a host of financial issues. According to TV reports, the board is likely to consider the next steps to be taken to deal with the strike, spearheaded by the now derecognised Indian Pilots Guild. Earlier, striking pilots indicated that they are ready to return to work if the 101 sacked pilots

AI to lease out five Boeing 777s

Cash-strapped Air India (AI) is negotiating a deal with Air Canada to dry-lease five of its Boeing 777-200 (long range) aircraft, airline sources said. A team of officials from Air India would soon

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Letters: Labour on the winning side

This refers to Shyamal Majumdar’s column “Air India’s rich ‘workmen’” (Human Factor, May 25). The author criticises the labour laws that give these rich pilots

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Accompanied baggage

The government’s austerity measures have come at the wrong time for bureaucrats from the ministry of labour and employment. These bureaucrats were getting ready to fly out of the hot, dusty

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AI board to meet on Monday; pilots' strike enters 20th day

New Delhi: Mumbai Air India board will meet here tomorrow to discuss the nearly three-week-old strike by over 200 pilots and a host of financial issues. Airline sources said the board is likely to

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Air India proposes VRS to cut down staff

Financially stressed Air India has proposed a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for its executive cadre employees to bring down manpower costs. The Air India Board will deliberate on the scheme at a

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