Jet cancels over 100 flights as agitation continues

Jet Airlines on Wednesday cancelled over 100 domestic and international flights operating out of various cities with the agitation by its pilots continuing for the second day.

Jet Airlines on Wednesday cancelled over 100 domestic and international flights operating out of various cities with the agitation by its pilots continuing for the second day.

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Most of the morning flights of the airlines remained cancelled.

"However, the airline's operations to Europe, the United Kingdom and North American would be as scheduled," a Jet Airways spokesperson said in a statement.

Air India has, meanwhile, come to the rescue of the Indian cricket team scheduled to go to Colombo today by a Jet Airways flight for the tri-nation one-day series there.

Air India will fly a special plane to carry the Indian cricket team to Colombo.The plane will take off from Chennai and go to Bangalore to take Indian captain M S Dhoni and leg spinner Harbhajan Singh before finally leaving for the Sri Lankan capital.

In Delhi, about 10 flights remained cancelled causing inconvenience to passengers. The airlines assured passengers of the disrupted flights that they will get full refund of their tickets.

"On the disrupted flights, passengers would get full refund or they could reissue or rebook flights without any penalty," the spokesperson said.