Air India to cancel around 60 flights on India-US routes in Nov-Dec due to non-availability of aircraft

Non-availability of craft owed to attraction issues has forced Tata Group-owned Air India to cancel immoderate 60 flights connected the India-US routes betwixt November and December this year, according to an hose source.

The flights, which person been cancelled during the highest question period, see services to San Francisco and Chicago, among others, the root said.

Air India, successful a statement, said it has cancelled a "small" fig of flights betwixt November and December connected relationship of delayed instrumentality of immoderate craft from dense attraction and proviso concatenation constraints, without naming the destinations.

It besides said that affected customers person been "informed" and offered flights connected different Air India radical services operating connected the aforesaid oregon adjacent days.

"Air India has cancelled immoderate 60 flights to and from San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Newark and New York betwixt November 15 and December 31, arsenic it does not person capable wide-body craft to run immoderate of the flights to these destinations," the sources told PTI.

As portion of this, Air India has cancelled 14 flights connected the Delhi-Chicago route, 28 flights connected the Delhi-Washington route, 12 flights betwixt the Delhi-SFO route, 4 flights connected the Mumbai-New York way arsenic good arsenic 2 flights connected the Delhi-Newark route, the sources said.

"Air India is facing delays successful getting craft from the MRO relation it is sending to for maintenance. Then immoderate of its wide-body planes are besides grounded owed to method issues. This has resulted successful the shortage of craft and consequently successful formation cancellations," they added.

"Due to the delayed instrumentality of immoderate craft from dense attraction and proviso concatenation constraints resulting successful a impermanent simplification successful operating fleet, Air India regrets that a tiny fig of flights person been cancelled betwixt present and end-December," an Air India spokesperson said.

Affected customers person been informed and offered flights connected different Air India radical services operating connected the aforesaid oregon adjacent days, a escaped alteration to immoderate different day oregon a afloat refund, the spokesperson said, adding, "Air India sincerely regrets the inconvenience caused by this constraint beyond our control".

Air India presently operates 5 flights betwixt Delhi and Washington, portion Delhi-JFK (New York) and Mumbai-JFK routes person 7 flights per week. On the Delhi-Chicago way also, the hose operates 7 flights per week.

Air India operates flights to San Francisco from 3 destinations -- Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

Of this, Air India operates 11 flights per week, including 1 regular work connected the Delhi-SFO route, portion from Mumbai and Bangalore, it operates 4 flights per week.

Besides, Air India besides operates 3 flights per week to Newark from Delhi and Mumbai.