Air India will be reducing the frequency of flights to the United States as a temporary measure to mitigate the problem of crew shortage in long-haul wide-body operations, the Tata Group airline’s Managing Director and CEO Campbell Wilson said. Currently, Air India is the largest operator of non-stop flights between India and the US.
The airline will be reducing weekly flight frequencies by three each to New York’s Newark airport and the San Francisco airport for two to three months, while the carrier is working to increase the strength of pilots for its fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft, Wilson told reporters on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit.
