New Delhi, Sep 9 - Jet Airways pilots will skip work for the second day Wednesday as the airlines' management has failed to bring back the agitating employees at work.

The airlines cancelled at least 35 flights across the country scheduled for Wednesday, an official said.

Expressing anguish and concern airlines chairman Naresh Goyal told a TV channel Tuesday night that the pilots have held the airline and the country to ransom.

'They have misled us. They had told us Monday that they would not go on strike. These pilots were on roster but they had called in sick at the last moment.

'We had sent doctors to their homes but some of them did not allow doctors to enter their houses. We would take action as per the company rules,' Goyal said.

Meanwhile, taking a tough stand, Jet Airways Tuesday sacked three more pilots.

Earlier in the day, the government had asked the airline to sort out the issue, as 400 of its pilots went on mass 'sick leave', so that passengers were not put to inconvenience.

The mass sick leave was to push for reinstatement of two pilots sacked earlier by the airline.