Kolkata: The four-days-a-week ban on flights from Mumbai and Delhi to Kolkata has put a spanner in Air India’s plans to operate the Kolkata-London flight.
While the ban on the London-Kolkata flight announced earlier had led to AI scheduling a Dreamliner Boeing B-787 aircraft from Mumbai to Kolkata in the wee hours of Sunday that would then do the Kolkata-London sector later that morning, the latest embargo restricting flights from Mumbai and Delhi to only Monday and Friday has forced the airline to cancel the Kolkata-London flight.
The airline has already waived rescheduling charges for passengers booked on the once-a-week fight via other cities till February 4.
Sources in the airline said it was not possible to re-route the Dreamliner aircraft via Bengaluru or Hyderabad to Kolkata for the Kolkata-London sector as that would involve changing multiple flights, causing huge scheduling problems.
