<p>A section of Air India pilots today threatened to strike work from tonight following the failure of talks with the Air India management, Indian Pilots Guild sources said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The management (Air India) today completely backtracked from what had been agreed upon in the last 2-3 days. Therefore, we are left with no option but to intensify our agitation," sources told PTI here.<br /><br />Disappointed over the management's attitude, some 100 odd pilots have already join the agitation and the Guild expects the number to swell to 250-300 by tomorrow, they said, indicating the flights operations could be hit severely in the coming days.<br /><br />Earlier, the management held meeting with the pilots in New Delhi in its bid to defuse the crisis, arising out of the rescheduling of the dreamliners training programme.<br /><br />On Saturday, a section of pilots reported sick, apparently to protest the move, resulting in the cancellation of one international flight and delaying another two by almost 16 hours.<br /><br />It is understood that during their meeting today, the airline management told the pilots that they had no reasons to strike work at a time when the government had announced a bailout package for the national carriers.<br /><br />The management is also said to have told the pilots to wait for a solution till the Justice D M Dharamadhikari Committee report is implemented by the government.<br /><br />"No time is good for agitation. But at times things come to such a passe when agitation is the last resort to get the pending issues resolved," the Guild sources said.<br /><br /></p>
<p>A section of Air India pilots today threatened to strike work from tonight following the failure of talks with the Air India management, Indian Pilots Guild sources said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The management (Air India) today completely backtracked from what had been agreed upon in the last 2-3 days. Therefore, we are left with no option but to intensify our agitation," sources told PTI here.<br /><br />Disappointed over the management's attitude, some 100 odd pilots have already join the agitation and the Guild expects the number to swell to 250-300 by tomorrow, they said, indicating the flights operations could be hit severely in the coming days.<br /><br />Earlier, the management held meeting with the pilots in New Delhi in its bid to defuse the crisis, arising out of the rescheduling of the dreamliners training programme.<br /><br />On Saturday, a section of pilots reported sick, apparently to protest the move, resulting in the cancellation of one international flight and delaying another two by almost 16 hours.<br /><br />It is understood that during their meeting today, the airline management told the pilots that they had no reasons to strike work at a time when the government had announced a bailout package for the national carriers.<br /><br />The management is also said to have told the pilots to wait for a solution till the Justice D M Dharamadhikari Committee report is implemented by the government.<br /><br />"No time is good for agitation. But at times things come to such a passe when agitation is the last resort to get the pending issues resolved," the Guild sources said.<br /><br /></p>