Striking Air India pilots seek prime minister's intervention

  New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) With both the court and the management taking a stern view on their persistence with their stir despite contempt proceedings, 600-odd pilots of Air India Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to end the impasse.
As the strike entered the seventh day, the state-run carrier has cancelled 165 flights in the domestic and regional overseas sectors, while all its 45 long-haul flights to the US, Europe and Japan, among other destinations, were to operate as per schedule.