Eight Air India unions on Wednesday threatened to go on strike from April 2 over unpaid salaries. The unions have forwarded their concerns to the Prime Minister.
The strike call comes the same day the government declared the airline was making operational losses of Rs 10 crore every day.
"The total loss of Air India every day on its operations is approximately Rs 10 crore," Civil Aviation minister Ajit Singh told the Lok Sabha in reply to a query.
He said Air India had to collect approximately Rs 574.67 crore from various central ministry as on March 15, 2012.
"During the last three years, Air India has received Rs 114.35 crore from the Ministry of Defence, Rs 212 crores from Prime Minister's Office and Rs 112.98 crore from Ministry of External Affairs," Singh said.