Pilots of government-owned Alliance Air went on a flash strike on Monday seeking a salary revision that causes nearly half its flights to be cancelled.
Alliance Air has 21 aircraft in its fleet. These include 20 ATR turboprop planes and a Hindustan Aeronautics-made Dornier-228. It operates 120-130 flights daily, many of them to destinations where it is sole operator.
Its operations went haywire on Monday as over half of its 200 pilots reported sick. By the evening the airline was able to operate around 60 per cent of scheduled flights.
