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Air India's flight operations will return to normal only by Monday, the airline said after the pilots called off their 10-day strike.
“Consequent to the withdrawal of the strike by the pilots, Air India has already initiated action necessary for the restoration of normal operations on its domestic sectors and flights to the neighbouring countries, which were affected in the last 10 days,” said the airline in a statement on Saturday.
Air India will restore over 50 per cent of all domestic flights on Sunday and by Monday the airline expects 100 per cent normal operations.
“The number of flights may change, but the number of seats offered would be the same as before,” the airline added in its statement.
Air India will also put up the details of all scheduled flights on its Web site and said that the restoration of flights is done in such a manner that metros and tier-II cities are connected effectively by Sunday.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Air India had begun operations of additional flights from all its bases — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore as the pilots started reporting for duty from early hours.
As of 5 p.m. on Saturday the national carrier had operated 65 flights from the six major metros against the scheduled 40 flights under its contingency schedule. These flights also registered high seat factors.
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