Mangalore: Pilots' Strike Hits Gulf-bound Air India Express Flights
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, May 30: The ongoing Air India pilots' strike has been making normal flight schedule go haywire. Flight cancellations and delays have become order of the day, leaving the passengers in a quandary.
The Air India Express flight scheduled to take off at 7 am on Tuesday May 29 was cancelled due to shortage of pilots.
Another flight to Kuwait which had been previously cancelled took off on Tuesday.
Sources said that passengers on the Mangalore-Muscat flight would be accomodated in another flight on Wednesday May 30.
The Dubai-bound flight scheduled for Tuesday night was also cancelled.
Mangalore-Qatar flight which was to take off on Wednesday morning has been postponed to 10 pm the same night.