Sigh of relief as some flights start taking off

New Delhi: There’s finally some good news for air travellers. Greece has allowed Indian carriers to fly passengers to and from Athens — that’s connected to the rest of Europe by land, rail and sea. This enabled Jet to fly passengers to Europe on Tuesday, the first time by an Indian airline in six days. German major Lufthansa operated flights to India on Tuesday and has scheduled six departures to Frankfurt and Munich in the early hours of Wednesday, along with flights to Vienna and Zurich on its umbrella carriers like Swiss and Austrian. More European carriers could restart flights, depending on the ash cover there.
Air India’s two aircraft that have been held up at the London airport will be deployed to fly stranded passengers to Delhi and Toronto on Tuesday, depending on clearances. In case the German air space is opened, there will be one flight from Mumbai to Frankfurt and another from Mumbai to London. The airlines US operations will continue with a technical halt at Cairo.
But the huge backlog has meant a massive rush and confusion among both passengers and airlines. According to the aviation ministry, Jet and AI alone have 6,000 and 3,000 Europe-bound passengers stranded in India.
21/04/10 Times of India

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