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Airline mess spreads, flyers in tizzy
n AI pilots’ stir enters Day 3 n 21 flights cancelled n Kingfisher pilots too report sick 
New Delhi/ Mumbai, May 10
It’s more trouble in the air. Beleaguered flyers, who are reeling under delays and cancellations of flights due to pilots’ stir in Air India, are expected to face tougher times ahead as another troubled carrier, Kingfisher Airlines, today saw its pilots reporting sick to work.

Air India aircraft parked at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal 

IAF to get new trainer aircraft
New Delhi, May 10
Ending years of shortage for a basis training aircraft for young trainee pilots of the Indian Air Force, the Cabinet Committee on Security tonight cleared a major deal of $700 million (approximately Rs 2,900 crore) to buy 75 single-engined aircraft from Swiss company Pilatus.