Kingfisher cancels flights to London due to volcanic ash

Mumbai: With drifting volcanic ash from Iceland forcing closure of two European airports, Kingfisher Airlines on Monday cancelled all its flights to London while Air India rescheduled its Mumbai-London flight.
"Having assessed the current information received from Eurocontrol, and the trends indicating anticipated closure of the airspace over London’s Heathrow airport due to fresh contamination of volcanic ash, Kingfisher airlines has cancelled its flights to and from London airport," its spokesperson said today.
Air India has rescheduled its Mumbai-London flight AI-131, which was to take off at 2.20 this morning. "We will take a call on the issue at 1130 hours," its spokesperson said.
However, Jet Airways said that all its flights to London were on schedule.
17/05/10 PTI/Times of India

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