Summary
- Air India has removed Bengaluru-London Gatwick and Delhi-Ho Chi Minh City routes from its schedule, in response to Cirium.
- Each routes could return to the carrier’s network in the longer term.
- Air India had previously also added and removed flights to Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas.
Air India has made some changes to its international route map, with the most recent data suggesting that it has removed services between Bengaluru and London Gatwick in addition to Delhi and Ho Chi Minh City. The airline is in the course of a major overseas expansion and will include these dropped routes sometime in the longer term.
Bengaluru-London Gatwick
Easy Flying had earlier reported that Air India would start a non-stop service between Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (BLR) and London Gatwick (LGW). In response to the airline’s previous schedule, flights between these two destinations were imagined to start on April 1, five times every week.
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Nonetheless, Easy Flying analyzed the info provided by Cirium Aviation Analytics and located that no flights were scheduled by the carrier on this route. Air India connected BLR with London Heathrow until 2022 and was imagined to switch this with a Gatwick service in April.
Currently, Bengaluru is served by British Airways, which flies non-stop from the South Indian City to London Heathrow Airport (LHR). It is going to soon be joined by Virgin Atlantic, which can start flying this route from March 31, using one in every of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
Delhi-Ho Chi Minh City
Last yr, several reports suggested that Air India was seeking to add a bunch of latest international destinations to its route network, including Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. With an expanding fleet, Air India now has the power to extend its overseas presence, and Vietnam is in consideration.
Indeed, until recently, the carrier had listed each day flights between Delhi and Ho Chi Minh City, but recent data from Cirium reveals that this route has also been dropped from Air India’s schedule. This doesn’t mean that the carrier has scrapped these plans permanently, and it’s possible that these routes could come back within the near future.
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The Delhi-Ho Chi Minh City route is smart for Air India, as there was an enormous surge of Indians traveling to Vietnam in the previous few years. Vietjet and Vietnam Airlines each fly between the 2 cities, and Air India could change into the primary Indian airline to fly this route, should it determine to incorporate it again in its schedule.
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Previous removals
This isn’t the primary time that Air India has added and removed routes from its schedule. Easy Flying was one in every of the primary media outlets to note that the carrier had listed Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas as among the destinations this yr, amongst others.
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Nonetheless, Air India has now removed these three US airports from its route map. There have been repeated requests from passengers to begin non-stop flights between India and a number of other other US destinations. With Air India adding widebody planes to its fleet, these may be brought back in the approaching months.
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