Around eleven pilots of Air India belonging to Indian Pilots Guild, went on an indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi today, demanding the reinstatement of their 101 sacked colleagues.

The Air India management earlier sacked 101 pilots belonging to the IPG. Around 440 pilots had struck work since the 8th of last month against the management's move to train pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines in the merged entity on the soon-to-be-inducted Boeing-787 Dreamliner.

However, the government on the 6th of this month, had invited the pilots to come back and resume their duties first. It had also said that only then, the sacked pilots will be reinstated on case-to-case basis.