The airport operator said that of the three impacted aircraft, two will be back to operations soon while the third will take a little longer to be fixed
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Air India, along with its low-cost subsidiary Air India Express, and Indigo, together cut down 250 daily domestic flights from June amid rising prices of jet fuel. The move was expected to further escalate airfares.
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Air India currently operates nearly 500 flights a day and a 22% reduction translates to roughly 110 daily flights being withdrawn; IndiGo currently operates nearly 2,200 daily flights, and a 5% reduction would amount to around 110 flights
The aircraft, with around 230 passengers onboard, had been airborne for more than three hours and was flying through Chinese airspace before diverting back toward Delhi
Campbell Wilson said he would depart the company within two months and the next four years would be “just as challenging as the past, albeit in a different way”
Airline officials said that the aircraft landed safely following which all passengers and crew disembarked.
FY26 marks the first full year of SIA absorbing Air India losses after acquiring a 25.1% stake in the merged Air India-Vistara entity
Air India said the latest announced rationalisation of services will be in place during the June-August period
Air India faces a leadership vacuum and mounting financial losses as it struggles to recover from the crash.