April 21, 2010 8:57 PM

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Air India to resume its flight from Thursday

Air India will restore its normal operations to the UK, Frankfurt and Toronto from tomorrow with the opening up of airports in Western countries.<br/><br/>An Air India spokesperson said, in addition to the US flights, Air India would be operating Delhi-London, Mumbai-London, Delhi-Frankfurt and Amritsar-Delhi-London-Toronto flights from tomorrow. He said, additional cockpit and cabin crew are in a position to start extra flights, if needed, to clear up the backlog of stranded passengers.<br/><br/> The announcement came after widespread disruption in the last six days caused by volcanic ash from Iceland. <br/><br/>The national carrier will resume its Delhi-Paris flight this evening. <br/><br/>An Air India aircraft, which was stranded for the past six days at Frankfurt, has taken off and is expected to arrive New Delhi today.<br/><br/> One of the two Boeing-777 aircraft stuck at London's Heathrow airport has left for Toronto while other to Amritsar to carry the stranded passengers. <br/><br/>Five of Air India's flights were stuck at various airports in Europe and the US after flight operations were suspended.<br/><br/>Air India will operate an additional flight from Mumbai to London on 23rd of this month to clear a large number of passengers stranded in Mumbai due to closure of European air space last week. <br/><br/>According to a release, the flight AI 133 will leave for London at 1020 hours and it will return to Mumbai next day at 1045 hours.

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