<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bd6dc91-519d-4354-9587-240e12bc5687/32C2C2CE-A16D-4DAC-8759-2D2180386667/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage" href="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theage.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P> Thousands of passengers were stranded yesterday as nearly 400 pilots working for India's Jet Airways called in sick to protest the firing of two colleagues, an airline official said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P>More than 100 of Tuesday's 346 domestic and international flights were cancelled, said A K Sivanandan, spokesman for the privately owned airline. The cancellations included flights to New York, London and Brussels.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P>An airline statement said the pilots' strike is illegal. It was not immediately clear how long the strike would last.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P>Sivanandan said two senior airline pilots were fired recently for working against the company's interest but he refused to provide details.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P>Nearly 400 pilots are demanding that management immediately rehire the fired pilots.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-stranded-as-400-pilots-call-in-sick-20090909-fgov.html?page=fullpage"><P>Jet offered a full refund to passengers whose flights were cancelled, the statement said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/32C2C2CE-A16D-4DAC-8759-2D2180386667/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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