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.
News On AIR | April 21, 2010 8:51 PM
Air India to resume its flight from tomorrow