Strike by Air India executive pilots was called off on Wednesday even as the airline cancelled over 30 flights across the country.
The government had earlier warned that the management was free to take any action against them.
The airline had cancelled 19 domestic and two international flights to Kabul and Kathmandu from Delhi besides some flights from Mumbai , Chennai and Kolkata .
The pilots' agitation, which entered the fifth day on Wednesday, had forced the airline to cancel over 240 flights in the last four day.
About 200 Air India pilots had reported "sick" since Saturday in protest against a 50 per cent cut in their productivity-linked incentives and payment of their due flying allowance of three months.
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Tuesday had appealed to the striking pilots to return to work.
Air India chairman and managing director Arvind Jadhav said that the PLI and allowance of July has been paid and it will reflect in the account of pilots by October 6 or 7.
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