Extending support to Jet Airways management, ground staff of the airline on Thursday issued an emotional appeal to the protesting pilots asking them to return to work.

"We want this strike to be withdrawn because it is affecting not only the airline but us also. The future of families depend on this as the company is losing revenue as well as passengers' trust," Surender Sharma, a representative of the ground staff, told reporters here.

Jagjeet Kaur, another ground staff, said, "We want this agitation to come to an end today itself. We have been working as a team and now after two days of the strike, the future of 13,000 non-pilot employees is at stake."

"600 pilots are withdrawing salary which amounts to 40% of the company's revenue. But they are forgetting the rest of us," Kaur said. The ground staff also asked the pilots to put forward their grievances in the right manner.

Ashwini, a customer-care supervisor, said earlier they were operating 47 flights out of Delhi but today they had operated just one."We have landed in such a situation due to 600 pilots. Nobody is thinking about the company," he said.