Flights begin to take off as volcanic ash starts receding

By: Staff | April 22, 2010 | | No Comments

(vIndianz April 22, 2010): After being closed for almost a week due to volcanic ash from Iceland, normal flight operations of domestic and international carriers from India to western countries started today with the opening of European airspace.

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Reports said Air India has resumed normal services on sectors such as Delhi-London-Delhi, Delhi-Frankfurt-Delhi, Mumbai-London -Mumbai, Delhi-New York-Delhi, Mumbai-New York-Mumbai, Mumbai-Chicago-Mumbai, Amritsar-London-Toronto-London-Amritsar and Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Newark-Mumbai today.
On Friday, it would operate an additional Mumbai-London -Mumbai flight with Boeing 747-400, which was used by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his trip to Brazil, to clear the backlog of passengers. Air India, had on Wednesday, began its European operations with the launch of its dailies from Delhi to Paris and Frankfurt. Meanwhile, Jet Airways resumed its flights to London from Delhi and Mumbai and relaunched its hub operations at Brussels. Jet will connect Newark and Toronto with Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai through Brussels, the reports added.

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