Mumbai: Indian students with a valid visa can fly to the US to join their university in August, but in the past few weeks have found their flights canceled or rescheduled.
Indian water sources say collateral damage caused by sustainable restrictions in other categories of US bound tourists from India.
On May 4, the US prohibits entering certain categories of non-immigrant travelers from India.
“The leaflets expect us to relax this restriction because Covid cases have dropped.
Anticipating this, they booked our flight ticket.
But the restrictions were not picked up and so the category of leaflets had canceled their tickets,” said an Indian air source.
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“Some of our fully booked flops now have many empty seats and so we were forced to cancel, reschedule.
The students booked this flight on this flight unfortunately took collateral damage,” added the source.
Two weeks ago, Ajay Anand (name changed on request), bought a return ticket RS 70,000 from the Indian Air website to travel on Delhi-New York flights in August.
This week, the airline website said that the order had changed and directed it to the center of their calls.
“I made many calls to the Indian Air Call Center, postponed for more than three hours but still could not be rescheduled my ticket.
So I canceled the AI ​​ticket and bought a ticket back to New York with RS 1,50 lakh that transits through Frankfurt,” he said.
With popular transit hubs like Dubai, London lid for Indians, the choice for our trip narrows and rates have jumped.
An Indian air spokesman said that after the US President’s Proclamation which limited air traffic from India, several AI to the US flights must be restricted or rescheduled.
Read Alsoschedul International Flight Suspension Extended to August-EndThe Government has extended the suspension of international flights scheduled until 31 August 2021.
However, the mission of Vande Bharat and other flights under air bubbles will continue to operate and people meet the requirements in accordance with government norms , From India.
“It is influenced well in advance and passengers are aware of the cancellation and rescheduling of their travel plans – which must be done for reasons beyond our control.
Vis-A-Vis-estimated 40 flights that we use to operate to the US before the President’s Proclamation, we can Operate 11 flights per week to the United States in July.
The frequency is increasing to 21 of August 7.
To clean the passenger rush, additional flight per week is also planned to Newark from Delhi and above the flight to the US.
With the frequency Enhanced in the US sector, all-out endeavors will be made to accommodate as many passengers as possible in our US-bound flights from August, “said the Indian water spokesman.
The US has permitted into students with fluent visa -1 or M-1 who intend to start or continue academic studies from August 1 or more.