First flight to London in 5 days takes off

Mumbai: The first flight in five days from Mumbai to London’s Heathrow, British Airway flight BA138, took off at 4:21 pm on Tuesday while another BA flight 198 took off for London at 6:59 pm.
However, Jet Airways’ flight NW118 to London, scheduled for departure at 4 pm, was called back to the bay area after it had taxied to the runway. Its departure was postponed to 9 pm and eventually cancelled. Kingfisher Airlines has cancelled all its London-bound flights on Wednesday.
The day was also marked by chaos for stranded passengers, as airline officials remained clueless about resumption in daily services, with fresh eruptions from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland spewing ash more than 15,000 feet into the sky sending fresh ash clouds into Europe on Tuesday, dashing hopes of resumption of daily services to Europe.
21/04/10 Ranjani Raghavan , Shashank Shekhar /Indian Express

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2010, Indian Aviation- In General Apr 2010