Now, operational issues ground Air India's international flights

Ahmedabad: There is no end to the woes of international passengers headed to Europe from Ahmedabad as Air India was forced to cancel its Thursday's flights to London and Newark owing to operational issues.
This comes just a day after Air India resumed its flight to London and three days after resumption of flight to Newark.
The AI 131 Ahmedabad-Mumbai-London flight was slated to take-off from Ahmedabad at 9.00 pm on Thursday. However, the flight was cancelled at around 6.30 pm, much to the dismay of passengers, many of whom have been stranded in the city for almost a week. In fact, some of the passengers had already reached the airport when they learnt about the cancellation. The one respite for west-bound flyers was that international airlines such as Emirates and Singapore Airlines, which operate international flights out of the city via Dubai and Singapore respectively, operated their flights to Europe, US and other places as usual. AI sources said the decision to cancel the flight was taken due to operational issues, and had nothing to do with clouds of volcanic ash over large parts of Europe.
"Many of our aircrafts and crew are stuck in Europe, US and other places on account of disruption of flights in the last seven to eight days. We are trying to do our best with the available resources, but this is an emergency situation," an AI source said.
23/04/10 Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Air India - International Apr 2010, NACIL Apr 2010