Air India tanks up for return flight to Myanmar at home now; all international routes under lens after ATF hike

NEW DELHI: With Jet fuel availability an issue in some countries including Myanmar, Air India has started fuelling aircraft for its flight to Yangon and back. The Tata Group airline has a once weekly on Delhi-Yangon-Delhi route. The single aisle deployed on this route now gets enough fuel from Delhi so that it can fly out of Yangoon. The aircraft then stops over in Kolkata on the way back for refuelling and then continues the journey to Delhi. So the flight has now become Delhi -Yangon-Kolkata-Delhi.

“More fuel means heavier plane. Heavier plane means more fuel burn. So it’s a vicious cycle for airlines who were till Feb 28 trying to reduce fuel burn by all available means,” said a senior pilot. The base price of ATF for international flights was more than doubled on Wednesday.