Air India services remain crippled for the eighth day today due to the pilots' strike with the ailing airline operating just ten per cent of its overall flights including 10 each from Mumbai and Delhi. About 40 flights were in operation today as the airline cancelled almost 90 per cent of its 320 daily services. Air India is suffering a loss of 26 crore rupees per day on account of the stir. So far, seven pilots have been sacked and six suspended. The Delhi High Court had on Tuesday slapped contempt notices to nine office bearers of de-recognised Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) for disobeying its order to call off the strike, and deciding to take up the matter on the 25th of this month.The Government has said that talks will be held only after the pilots call-off their strike. The pilots on the other side maintain that they will call-off their strike only after the derecognition of their union is revoked and its sacked office bearers are reinstated. Air India management in the meantime have issued directions not to process the salaries of pilots who have not reported back for duty, despite the issuance of an ultimatum that expired last Friday.