Air India on Monday announced the partial restoration of schedules that were reduced pursuant to its 'Safety Pause' (Photo:
Air India on Monday announced the partial restoration of schedules that were reduced pursuant to its ‘Safety Pause’, taken following the tragic accident of A1171 in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on June 12, in which 260 people had died.
The airline in a statement said “pause enabled Air India to perform additional precautionary checks on its Boeing 787 aircraft as well as accommodating longer flying times arising from airspace closures over Pakistan and the Middle East”.
The partial resumption will see restoration of some frequencies from August 1, relative to July, with full restoration planned from October 1.
Announcing new routes, the airline said that from August 1 to 30 September, Air India will operate 3x weekly flights between Ahmedabad and London (Heathrow), replacing currently operating 5x weekly flights between Ahmedabad and London (Gatwick).
It also said that it will reinstate of flights or increased frequencies on Europe and far-east routes.
It said that for Europe, Air India has reinstated Delhi-London (Heathrow), two weekly flights previously curtailed, with all 24s weekly flights operating from July 16 onwards, while the Delhi-Zurich Increased from 4x weekly to 5x weekly, effective August 1.
Similarly for Far-East routes, the airline said that Delhi-Tokyo (Haneda) has been reinstated two weekly flights previously curtailed, with all 7x weekly flights operating from August 1 onwards and one Delhi-Seoul (Incheon) flight has also been reinstated two weekly flights previously curtailed, with all 5x weekly flights from September 1 onwards.
The Air India also said that for Europe, Bengaluru-London (Heathrow) flight remains reduced from 7x weekly to 5x weekly, will further reduce to 4x weekly, effective August 1 2025. While Amritsar-Birmingham flight also remains reduced from 3x weekly to 2x weekly until August 31 to operate 3x weekly, effective September 1.
It also said that Delhi-Birmingham route flight also remains reduced from 3x weekly to 2x weekly, while Delhi-Paris flight also reduced from 12x weekly to 7x weekly, effective August 1.
It further stated that Delhi-Milan flight also remains reduced from 4x weekly to 3x weekly, effective July 16, while Delhi-Copenhagen flight too remains reduced from 5x weekly to 3x weekly and Delhi-Amsterdam remains reduced from 7x weekly to 5x weekly, to resume 7x weekly, effective August 1.
For North America routes, Air India said that Delhi-Vienna flight remains reduced from 4x weekly to 3x weekly, similarly Delhi-Washington (Dulles) flight also remains reduced from 5x weekly to 3x weekly.
It also stated that Delhi-Chicago flight too remains reduced from 7x weekly to 3x weekly (to operate 4x weekly in August) while Delhi-San Francisco flight too remains reduced from 10x weekly to 7x weakly and Delhi-Toronto also remains reduced from 13x weekly to 7x weekly.
The airline further said that Delhi-Vancouver flight also remains reduced from 7x weekly to 4x weekly, while Delhi-New York (JFK) too reduced from 7x weekly to dix weekly, effective 16 July and Mumbai-New York (JFK) flight reduced from 7x weekly to 6x weekly, effective August 1.
It further said that Delhi-New York (Newark Liberty) flight has been reduced from 5x weekly to 4x weekly, effective July 16.
On Australia route, the airline said that Delhi-Melbourne flight also remains reduced from 7x weekly to 5x weekly and Delhi-Sydney flight also remains reduced from 7x weekly to 5x weekly.
For Africa route, it said that Delhi-Nairobi flight has been reinstated, operating 3x weekly until August 31, and will suspended from September 1 to 30.
The Air India also said that Amritsar-London (Gatwick) (Al168/170) 3x weekly flights, Goa (Mopa)-London (Gatwick) (Al145/146) 3x weekly flights, Bengaluru-Singapore (A12302/2303) 7x weekly flights, Pune-Singapore (Al2111/2110): 5x weekly flights will remain temporarily suspended.
The airline said that as the schedule reductions taken as part of the “Safety Pause” had been implemented until July 31, 2025 and the restoration to full operation is being phased, some services initially planned to operate between August 1 and September 30 will be removed from the schedule.
“Air India is proactively contacting affected passengers to offer re-booking on alternative flights or a full refund, as per their preference. Air India apologizes for the inconvenience,” it said.
With the partial restoration, Air India operate more than 525 international flights per week on 63 short, long and ultra long haul routes, it added.
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