European airspace reopens; Air India, Jet resume flights

New Delhi: Air India has resumed its daily flights to Paris and Frankfurt as well as to New York and Chicago with the reopening of airports in European nations.
Large scale flight disruptions over the past week occurred due to drifting ash clouds from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland, affecting thousands of passengers at airports in Europe and elsewhere.
“In addition to the U.S. flights, Air India will be operating Delhi-London, Mumbai-London, Delhi-Frankfurt and Amritsar-Delhi-London-Toronto flights from Thursday,” an Air India spokesperson said here on Wednesday.
Private carrier Jet Airways has also resumed its flights operating to London from Delhi and Mumbai, and its flight to Heathrow from Mumbai departed on Wednesday afternoon.
Air India's stranded flight from Frankfurt has reached Delhi via Egypt. The national carrier will operate its Delhi-London and Delhi-Frankfurt flights on Thursday, as also its Amritsar-Toronto flight.
Additional cockpit and cabin crew of Air India are in position to start extra flights, if needed, to clear up stranded passengers, the spokesperson added.
22/04/10 Vinay Kumar/The Hindu

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