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New Delhi: Air India pilots' strike blocks air traffic

New Delhi, India - More than fifty domestic flights cancelled

Since some days in India the discontent of the Indian Commercial Pilot's Association has turned in a massive strike of more than six hundred pilots. More than fifty domestic flights, which started from New Delhi and Mumbai, were canceled between yesterday and today, and also international destinations are at sea. On February 23, the union leaders had announced the possibility of a protest against...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1128852
Rome, Italy, 04/28/2011 12:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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