Air India’s striking pilots have ended their 58-day-old strike and are returning to work.
The pilots said in a statement, “We, the pilots of Air India and members of Indian Pilots Guild, on the intervention of the Delhi High Court, have started the procedure to resume work.”
Air India’s management told the Delhi High Court it would sympathetically look into pilots’ grievances including reinstatement of 101 fired pilots.
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