Jet Airways cancelled 260 domestic and international flights, including 32 from the national capital, on Saturday as the strike by the pilots entered the fifth day after nine-hour long conciliation talks between them and the management ended in a deadlock.
The pilots maintained that they were "hopeful" of a breakthrough as negotiations will continue on Saturday.
"A total of 235 domestic and 25 international flights remained cancelled for the fifth consecutive day today," the airlines said in a statement.
Jet tried to accommodate some of its passengers in its low-cost arm JetLite by combining the flights on Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Vadodara, Mumbai-Kochi, Mumbai-Mangalore, Kolkata-Bangalore, Kolkata-Guwahati, Mumbai-Mangalore and Kolkata-Agartala sectors.
The airlines also merged their Chennai-Mumbai and Bangalore-Mumbai to fly on Bangalore-Chennai-Mumbai sector.
The airlines run a total of 380 flights to domestic and international destinations.
The strike by the pilots has caused huge loss of revenue for the airlines. Jet’s ticketing and check-in counters at the IGI airport here wore a deserted look.
On Friday, the pilots and the management representatives sat for face-to-face negotiations for the first time since the stir started on Tuesday, but the marathon talks before Chief Labour Commissioner here ended inconclusively.
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Source : The Hindu
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