Mumbai,October 06: National-carrier Air India today said that in the last two days its bookings have averaged around 26,000-28,000 passengers per day.
“In the two days, Air India has once again began average bookings in the range of 26,000-28,000 per day, significantly higher than those recorded in the same period last year,” a company press release said here.
The air-carrier has regained the booking levels that it had prior to last week’s strike by executive pilots, which had affected flights as also flight bookings, the release said.
According to the airline, while it was averaging bookings in the range of 26,000-28,000 prior to September 25, the same had come down to as low as 9,000 on September 30, the last day of the strike.
Over 180 executive pilots of Air India had struck work for over five days recently over planned pay-cuts causing dozens of flight cancellations, long delays, and a temporary freeze in new bookings.
They later called off their agitation after government gave an assurance that status quo would prevail on cost-cutting measures relating to Productivity-Linked Incentive.
–PTI–