NEW DELHI: Air India will reduce frequency of its Sri Lanka flights, with demand for travel to Sri Lanka fast shopping due to the economic crisis and imposition of emergency there. AI has 16 weekly flights between various Indian cities and Colombo. This will be reduced to 13 starting Friday (March 8) when the daily Delhi-Colombo-Delhi flight will become a four times weekly flight. \u201cThe flights are reduced due to poor loads,\u201d said an AI spokesperson.
\n\u201cDelhi-Colombo (AI 283) will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays) from April 8 to May 30, 2022. And the return fight (AI 284) will operate on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from April 9 to May 31, 2022,\u201d said the official.
\nOther Indian carriers are going to take a call on calibrating their Sri Lanka flights\u2019 frequency this week as the demand has fallen sharply.
\n\u201cWe are witnessing lower bookings to Colombo due to the ongoing crisis. We are continuously monitoring the impact and may take appropriate action to adjust the capacity based on the demand and situation in Sri Lanka,\u201d an IndiGo spokesperson had said Saturday.
\nAn official of another leading Indian carrier said: \u201cWe are still operating but loads are dropping. A decision on suspension\/reduction of flights will be taken early this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Air India will reduce frequency of its Sri Lanka flights, with demand for travel to Sri Lanka fast shopping due to the economic crisis and imposition of emergency there. AI has 16 weekly flights between various Indian cities and Colombo. This will be reduced to 13 starting Friday (March 8) when the daily Delhi-Colombo-Delhi flight will become a four times weekly flight. \u201cThe flights are reduced due to poor loads,\u201d said an AI spokesperson. \u201cDelhi-Colombo (AI 283) will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays) from April 8 to May 30, 2022. And the return fight (AI 284) will […]<\/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-481907","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\/481907","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=481907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}