Jet Airways, India’s second largest domestic carrier, returned to the skies on Sunday after a week-long stand-off with pilots that had grounded its flights and cost the company millions of dollars in lost revenues.

The majority of the airline’s pilots had taken industrial action by reporting sick after four of their colleagues were sacked for setting up a trades union. An agreement struck with the personal involvement of the airline’s owner Naresh Goyal in talks in Mumbai at the weekend reinstated the sacked pilots, agreed a resumption of flights and paved the way for the possible recognition of a pilots’ union.