AI flights from Kolkata London Almost full in January 2022 with over 220 seats in economy class and over 14 in booked business class. With AI flights departing for London from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Amritsar and Ahmedabad in January, the airline had to dump, plans to reschedule passenger departures from Kolkata through these cities and Instead, decided to deploy an aircraft to do one-way flight.
“Initially, we decided to cancel both AI 163 and AI 164 Bengal The government announced a ban. But we realized that there are very few seats available on flights to London from other cities. Accommodating more than 240 passengers every Sunday on other flights from these cities would have been a logistics nightmare. Therefore, we decided to reinstate AI 163 to continue operations on the Kolkata-London sector. The Boeing Dreamliner B787 aircraft, upon arrival in London, will operate as Flight AI 128 from London to Mumbai.
Sources said that passengers booked on the London-Kolkata flight will be given the option of flying to the city via Mumbai or Delhi or any other city. But there will be a break journey with the passengers disembarking in these cities, passing covid Testing on arrival and then boarding a domestic sector AI flight to Kolkata.
Passengers have been relieved of having to carry their travel bags to other cities and not have to check in again before boarding a flight to London. In addition, it would mean additional complications in rescheduling the COVID tests to meet the deadline. “When I came to know about the flight ban on Thursday, I was very upset as to how I would return on January 16. Now that the AI has assured us that we will be able to fly directly from Kolkata, this A big relief,” he said. A traveller, who lives in Surrey near London and is currently visiting her parents in Behala.
Travel trade industry executives said that while single-leg flights are rare, they are not unprecedented. Through the second wave in India, Emirates and Qatar operated flights to Kolkata, which did not take any passengers back due to restrictions imposed by the UAE and Qatar on passengers from India to prevent the spread of the delta variant.
this time, it’s omicron The way Bengal is trying to mold itself. The UK and Europe, as well as other countries in the US, have been reporting a tsunami of COVID cases for the past fortnight, while the number of COVID cases in India is increasing rapidly.
The interim arrangement will also mean an additional AI flight from Mumbai to Kolkata which will take off at 1.30 am on Sunday and touchdown at 4.30 pm. The flight to London will depart as per schedule at 6.25 am.
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