8 Air India flights cancelled from Kolkata

Kolkata, May 1: Altogether eight Air India flights were cancelled today from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here on the fifth day of the strike of the airline's pilots, sources said.

The destinations of the cancelled flights were Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Guwahati, Dimapur and Imphal.

Air India sources here said 11 flights from Kolkata to Silchar, Shillong, Port Blair, Aizawl, Agartala, Dimapur, Guwahati and Imphal operated as per schedule.

Eight hundred odd pilots, belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines owing allegiance to Indian Commercial Pilots Association, have been on an indefinite strike from the midnight of April 26 demanding pay hike.

PTI