Air India flights operate on time

Flight schedules of Air India, disrupted by a two-day strike by a section of its staff, normalised on Friday with the airline operating all its flights since morning on time.

The strike had disrupted the national carrier's flight schedules, with hundreds of flights being cancelled for two days earlier this week.

Air India has operated over 90 per cent of its flights scheduled on Thursday and started normal operations from this morning, an airline official said.

In an apparent bid to stem support for a fresh strike call given by two major unions on June 12, Air India management has called top leaders of other unions for a meeting on Tuesday.

The merged airline has a total of 14 unions representing various sections of workers of the two erstwhile carriers.

"Management intends to communicate through the office bearers of the unions, the actual reasons leading to the present situation," an Air India spokesperson said.

The management, which had earlier decided to defer payment of May salaries by a week, also announced that wage disbursements would take place on June one itself. The decision to delay wage disbursal was one of the issues which led to the strike.