NEW DELHI: Air India has cancelled its standard Delhi-Madrid-Delhi, Delhi-Birmingham-Delhi and Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham flights from this Saturday “due to operational reasons till further realize.”
The airline has accomplished so due to a mix of reasons like crew scarcity brought about by west-bound flights taking longer path after Pakistan airspace closure and hence, they need to fly with extra crew individuals. Secondly, the airline is going through a scarcity of aircraft additionally with over 23 of them waiting for spares and engines.
“We sincerely feel sorry about the inconvenience brought about to our valued passengers and request passengers to collect full refund,” AI said in an replace. The flights cancelled from March 16 are AI 135 and 136 (Delhi-Madrid-Delhi); AI 113 and 114 (Delhi-Birmingham-Delhi) and AI 117 and 118 (Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Amritsar-Delhi).
The airline has accomplished so due to a mix of reasons like crew scarcity brought about by west-bound flights taking longer path after Pakistan airspace closure and hence, they need to fly with extra crew individuals. Secondly, the airline is going through a scarcity of aircraft additionally with over 23 of them waiting for spares and engines.
“We sincerely feel sorry about the inconvenience brought about to our valued passengers and request passengers to collect full refund,” AI said in an replace. The flights cancelled from March 16 are AI 135 and 136 (Delhi-Madrid-Delhi); AI 113 and 114 (Delhi-Birmingham-Delhi) and AI 117 and 118 (Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Amritsar-Delhi).
Air India cancels some Europe flights due to crew, aircraft shortage
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