Kolkata: Settings to rest the fear and anxiety of passengers booked at Air India’s Kolkata-London against AI 163 on January 9 and the following Sunday, the airline announced on Friday that he would continue to operate this scheduled flight.
It followed the temporary ban announced by the state government on Thursday with flights from England after January 3.
AI flights from Kolkata to London are almost full of more than 220 seats in economy class and more than 14 seats in business.
Class booked.
With AI flights to London from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Amritsar, and Ahmedabad also chock-a-block in January, the airline must be discarded is a plan to reschedule the departure of passengers from these cities through cities This and instead, decided to spread airplanes to fly one-way.
“Initially, we have decided to cancel both AI 163 and AI 164 after the Bengal government announced the ban.
But we realized that there were very few chairs available on London flights bound from other cities.
It accommodates more than 240 passengers every Sunday On the other hand from these cities will be a logistical nightmare.
So, we decided to reinstall AI 163 to continue to operate in the Kolkata-London sector, “said an airline official.
The Booing Dreamliner B 787 aircraft, to reach London, will then operate as AI 128 flights from London to Mumbai.
Source said passengers ordered on London-Kolkata flights will be offered the choice to fly to the city through Mumbai or Delhi or other cities.
But it must be a break with passengers who come down in these cities, undergo Covid tests on arrival and then take a flight of AI domestic sectors to Kolkata.
Passengers relieved did not have to carry travel bags to other cities and then check them again before riding a bound London flight.
Also it will mean additional complications on the rescheduling of Covid tests to meet the timeline.
“When I learned about the ban on a flight on Thursday, I was very confused about how I would return on January 16.
Now AI has convinced us that we will be able to fly back directly from Kolkata, it is a big relief,” we said.
A passenger, who lives in Surrey near London and is currently visiting his parents in Behala.
Industrial officials travel trafficking says single leg flights, while rare, never happened before.
Through the second wave in India, Emirates and Qatar have operated flights to Kolkata which did not take any passengers because of the prohibition forced by UAE and Qatar on leaflets from India to stem the distribution of Delta variants.
This time, it is an Omicron variant that struggles to protect himself.
Britain and other countries in Europe and the US reported a Covid case tsunami for the past two weeks even when the number of Covid cases rose sharply in India.
Temporary arrangements will also mean additional AI flights from Mumbai to Kolkata which will take off at 1:30 a.m.
on Sunday and Touchdown at 4:30 in the morning.
Flights to London will depart at 6:25 a.m.
on schedule.