AI crisis grows, to hit more flights

The spectre of massive nationwide cancellation of flights looms large over state-owned carrier Air India, with the airline saying Monday it was assessing how many flights it could operate in the coming days in view of the escalating pilots' strike. However, both Air India and the civil aviation ministry declared there was no possibility of a lockout, and denied earlier reports that it would suspend all its operations from midnight on Monday.

Confusion prevailed over the airline's flight schedules for Tuesday. While Air India sources said up to 21 domestic flights (IC-code) could be operated from New Delhi on Tuesday, the airline's call centre was saying all domestic flights (IC-code) and some international flights (AI-code) could be cancelled on Tuesday. The call centre has, meanwhile, stopped accepting all bookings on domestic flights "till further notice".

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