8 Air India flights cancelled from Kolkata

Eight Air India flights were cancelled till 3 pm today from NSC Bose airport here on the third day of the pilots' strike.
      
The destinations of the cancelled flights were Guwahati, Gaya, Imphal, Port Blair, Mumbai and Delhi. Air India sources here said that six flights for various destinations took off as scheduled.
      
Passengers of cancelled flights may get their money back if desired. Others were accommodated either in private flights or large Air India planes, the sources said.
      
Eight hundred-odd pilots, belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines owing allegiance to the Indian Commercial Pilots Association, have been on an indefinite strike from the midnight of April 26 demanding pay hike.