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- Air India Express cancels 5 flights from Kolkata due to cabin team crisis
- Flights to Hyderabad, Chennai, Cochin, and Ayodhya impacted
- Part of 120 domestic and global flights cancelled throughout India
Air India Express on Friday cancelled 5 flights on 4 paths from Kolkata as the airline company is making efforts to return to normalcy following the cabin crew-related crisisan authorities stated.
The airline company cancelled 2 flights in between Kolkata and Hyderabad, one each to Chennai, Cochin and Ayodhya, an Air India Express representative informed PTI.
These were amongst the overall of 120 flights, both domestic and worldwide, that were cancelled throughout the nation on Friday, even after the area of the cabin team who had actually been on strike considering that Tuesday night had actually called it off on Thursday.
According to the representative, besides the 120 cancellations, the airline company ran 246 flights to different locations of which 20 flights were run by Air India and 2 by Vistara.
Sources in the airline company stated though the cabin team began reporting back to work, putting them on flights was not possible instantly due to a great deal of technicalities associated with rostering and re-rostering.
Things are anticipated to be totally regular in one-and-a-half days.
Sources likewise stated that a long time will likewise be consumed in the medical check-up of the cabin team who reported back to work, besides exercising the whole responsibility lineup.
Significantly, the strike (unexpected mass authorized leave) by an area of the cabin team considering that Tuesday night had actually led to the cancellation of more than 170 flights was cancelled on Thursday night.
The airline company likewise had actually withdrawn the termination letters provided to 25 striking cabin team.
The cabin team had actually begun reporting ill to object versus declared mismanagement at the airline company.