Air India or AI has curtailed and clubbed many of its flights to the US and Europe as part of its contingency plan to stabilize its international operations hit by the eight-day-old pilot's stir, reports said.
The national carrier would be operating daily return services, with Boeing 777-300 extended range aircraft, for its destinations to Europe and US.
It will operate a minimum number by clubbing the flights to the US and European destinations. It would now operate on Delhi-Paris-New York, Delhi-Frankfurt-Chicago and Delhi-London sectors, under its contingency plan which would be put in place from May 16 to May 20, AI spokesperson said.
The Delhi-Paris flight has been clubbed with Delhi-JFK (New York). So, the flight would leave Delhi and will land in Paris and then take off to New York and from there back to Delhi.
The airline has lost more than Rs.150 crore in the last eight days due to ongoing strike by the pilots and subsequent cancellations and grounding of fleet of aircraft.
The airline has lost more than Rs.150 crore in the last eight days, besides disrupting holiday and other travel plans of many persons, due to ongoing strike by the pilots and subsequent cancellations and grounding of fleet of aircraft. The airline has also stopped bookings on its ultra long-haul routes till Thursday.
The national carrier would be operating 21 daily flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Ahmedabad and Bangalore to Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dammam, Muscat and Male. Apart from it, AI would operate two daily flights between Delhi and Kathmandu.
"The airline would operate four flights per week between Mumbai-Jeddah and three flights a week between Delhi-Jeddah and Delhi-Shanghai. There would be twice weekly operations in Mumbai-Hyderbad-Jeddah, Kochi-Kozhikode-Jeddah, Mumbai-Riyadh, Riaydh-Kochi, Delhi-Tokyo, and Dalhi-Riyadh," a statement from Air India said.
The airline had planned to wet-lease aircrafts to operate four or five flights but is still evaluating the proposal.
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