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Air India cited the delayed return of plane from heavy upkeep and ongoing provide chain points for the disruptions.
Non-availability of plane as a consequence of upkeep points has pressured Tata Group-owned Air India to cancel some 60 flights on the India-US routes between November and December this 12 months, in keeping with an airline supply.
The flights, which have been cancelled through the peak journey interval, embrace providers to San Francisco and Chicago, amongst others, the supply mentioned.
Air India, in an announcement, mentioned it has cancelled a “small” variety of flights between November and December on account of delayed return of some plane from heavy upkeep and provide chain constraints, with out naming the locations.
It additionally mentioned that affected prospects have been “knowledgeable” and provided flights on different Air India group providers working on the identical or adjoining days.
“Air India has cancelled some 60 flights to and from San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Newark and New York between November 15 and December 31, because it doesn’t have ample wide-body plane to function a number of the flights to those locations,” the sources advised PTI.
As a part of this, Air India has cancelled 14 flights on the Delhi-Chicago route, 28 flights on the Delhi-Washington route, 12 flights between the Delhi-SFO route, 4 flights on the Mumbai-New York route in addition to two flights on the Delhi-Newark route, the sources mentioned.
“Air India is dealing with delays in getting plane from the MRO operator it’s sending to for upkeep. Then a few of its wide-body planes are additionally grounded as a consequence of technical points. This has resulted within the scarcity of plane and consequently in flight cancellations,” they added.
“As a result of delayed return of some plane from heavy upkeep and provide chain constraints leading to a brief discount in working fleet, Air India regrets {that a} small variety of flights have been cancelled between now and end-December,” an Air India spokesperson mentioned.
Affected prospects have been knowledgeable and provided flights on different Air India group providers working on the identical or adjoining days, a free change to another date or a full refund, the spokesperson mentioned, including, “Air India sincerely regrets the inconvenience attributable to this constraint past our management”.
Air India presently operates 5 flights between Delhi and Washington, whereas Delhi-JFK (New York) and Mumbai-JFK routes have seven flights per week. On the Delhi-Chicago route additionally, the airline operates seven flights per week.
Air India operates flights to San Francisco from three locations — Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
Of this, Air India operates 11 flights per week, together with one day by day service on the Delhi-SFO route, whereas from Mumbai and Bangalore, it operates 4 flights per week.
In addition to, Air India additionally operates three flights per week to Newark from Delhi and Mumbai.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)