New Delhi: Air India has assured that it will help tide over the aviation crisis caused by hundreds of Jet Airways pilots being on protest leave, but the Air India pilots' union has decided not to fly extra hours due to the Jet crisis.
Sources said many senior pilots had received mail from the Indian Commercial Pilots Association union saying that they would not operate extra flights.
The ICPA is reportedly giving moral support to striking Jet pilots.
Air India executive director Jitendra Bhargava had said: "Wherever something happens in aviation, Air India does come to the fore. We realise that we as a national carrier have a greater responsibility than others. So when we heard of this proposed mass leave by Jet pilots we geared ourselves, and early morning when the cancellations happened we were ready to take passengers on. We were helping passengers."