It's been eight days since the Air India pilots struck work, thousands of passengers have been inconvenienced since then, the courts have been seized of the matter and issuing strictures against them, but the men who fly the magnificent machines simply refuse to retract.
Eight days on, the national carrier has been operating just 10 pc of its overall flights, 10 each from Mumbai and Delhi.
So far seven pilots have been sacked and six suspended, and the airline has been incurring a loss of Rs 26 crore a day thanks to the strike.
Really, the next time we fly Air India, we shouldn't make any negative comparisons with other airlines. We know what primarily ails Air India.