Jet cancels 260 more flights
New Delhi: Jet Airways cancelled more 260 domestic and international flights, including 32 from the national capital.
The pilots maintained that they were “hopeful” of a breakthrough as negotiations will continue today. The airlines run a total of 380 flights to domestic and international destinations.
In the mean time 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 airlines said in a statement “A total of 235 domestic and 25 international flights remained cancelled for the fifth consecutive day today.”
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.
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