Air India has moved the Supreme Court against striking pilots and also stopped flight bookings for the US, Canada and Europe till May 15.

Air India moved a petition in the Epex court seeking initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against the office bearers of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) for allegedly obstructing implementation of its order on training of pilots for the Dreamliner aircraft.

An application in this regard alleged that the ongoing protest action by IPG, which has disrupted international flight operations of airline, amounts to contempt of the apex court orders.

The airline also sacked 10 more pilots taking the number of pilots whose services have been terminated to 46.