Normal flight operations from India to western countries started on Thursday with the opening of European airspace that was closed almost after a week, due to plumes of flying ash from a volcano in Icealand. <br/> <br/>Air India's resumed normal air services today to London, Frankfurt, New York, Chicago, Newark. <br/> <br/>On Friday, it would operate an additional Mumbai-London -Mumbai flight to clear the backlog of passengers. <br/> <br/>On Wednesday, Air India began its European operations with the launch of its dailies from Delhi to Paris and Frankfurt. Jet Airways too resumed its flights to London from Delhi and Mumbai and relaunched its hub operations at Brussels. It would now connect Newark and Toronto with Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai through Brussels.<br/> <br/>Kingfisher Airlines will also start its normal operations on Delhi-London and Mumbai-London sector. German carrier Lufthansa, French carrier Air France nd Swiss Airways have also resumed their normal services to Munich, Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich. The airlines have asked the passengers to get their tickets confirmed before coming to the airport due to the the massive backlog.<br/><br/><br/>