Kolkata: The four-days-a-week ban on flights from Mumbai and Delhi to Kolkata has put a spanner in Air India\u2019s plans to operate the Kolkata-London flight.
\nWhile 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.
\nThe airline has already waived rescheduling charges for passengers booked on the once-a-week fight via other cities till February 4.
\nSources 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: The four-days-a-week ban on flights from Mumbai and Delhi to Kolkata has put a spanner in Air India\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}