As many as 221 Air India flights on the domestic operations were cancelled, as the strike by nearly half of the carrier's 1,600 pilots entered the eighth day on Wednesday, with operations restricted to the trunk routes between metros.
But the Air India management said some 100-odd flights of sister budget carrier Alliance Air had been deployed to ferry passengers as no reconciliation was in sight between the management and the striking pilots, co-opted from the erstwhile Indian Airlines .
