VIJAYAWADA: Due to poor occupancy, Air India has cancelled its weekly flight to Muscat from Vijayawada International Airport scheduled to start this month.As per the schedule, the Air India has announced to operate Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Muscat flight, that will take off from Vijayawada on Tuesdays at noon.
“Initially, the weekly flight services to Muscat should have operated from July 20 (Tuesday). However due to poor occupancy, the weekly flights to Muscat were cancelled on July 20 and 27. Besides that, Covid-19 restrictions are still being imposed in the Gulf countries and permissions were given for travel for those settled in the Gulf or having visa. This affected the passenger occupancy between Vijayawada and Muscat,” director G Madhusudana Rao told TNIE.
