MUMBAI: Tata Group-owned Air India (AI) has cancelled about 60 US flights scheduled for the height journey season of Nov and Dec. Airfares on flights between India and the US are usually excessive this time of the yr, however with the cancellations, fares are set to leap additional. This improve will have an effect on fares not solely on continuous flights between these two international locations but additionally on flights that contain a transit halt in a 3rd nation.
Among the many flights cancelled are these from Delhi to locations comparable to Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, after which from Mumbai to New York, stated sources. At current, AI is the one Indian provider that operates flights between India and the US. In a press release, AI stated the cancellations have been made “because of the delayed return of some plane from heavy upkeep and provide chain constraints leading to a short lived discount in working fleet”.
“Air India regrets {that a} small variety of flights have been cancelled between now and the top of December. Affected clients have been knowledgeable and supplied flights on different Air India group companies working on the identical or adjoining days, a free change to some other date, or a full refund. Air India sincerely regrets the inconvenience attributable to this constraint past our management,” stated an AI spokesperson.
