With no clear headway in the Air India management-executive pilots negotiations, taxi drivers at the domestic and international airports are losing sleep as the standoff enters its fifth day.

For the past month, cabbies at the airports are suffering heavy losses, first owing to the Jet Airways strike and now with the Air India pilots' strike.

Meter Down: Taxi drivers are bearing the brunt of the AI pilots strike.

Sanjay Yadav, a cool cab driver at the International airport, said, "I have been waiting for nearly 10 hours today, and not a single passenger has turned up."

Another cab driver Shreyash Kumar said, "Normally we leave the airport around midnight, but as the flights have not been cancelled we have to wait till 3 am for the passengers to return."

Deserted cafeteria

With several international flights being cancelled the cafeteria at the airport wore a deserted look, and the losses are taking a heavy toll on the shopkeepers.

Executive Director Air India Jitendra Bhargava said, "We are hopeful of a result in the meeting today, but as of now the strike is still on."