Gurugram: After a “safety pause” after the terrible June 12 disaster of aircraft AI171, Air India has announced a gradual return to international flights. In order to do preventative maintenance on its Boeing 787 aircraft and to adjust to longer flight paths required by regional airspace restrictions, the airline has stopped or shortened a number of flights.
According to the airline’s Tuesday announcement, full regular operations should return by October 1 after partial services are restored beginning on August 1. Five routes in all will see greater frequency or the return of services.
The Delhi-London (Heathrow) route will resume full 24 weekly flights on July 16; the Delhi-Zurich route will increase from 4 to 5 weekly flights on August 1; the Delhi-Tokyo (Haneda) and Delhi-Seoul (Incheon) routes will resume full weekly frequencies by August and September, respectively; and the Delhi-Amsterdam route will resume 7 weekly flights on August 1.
The present Gatwick service between Ahmedabad and London (Heathrow) will be replaced by a new route that runs three times a week. In addition, services between Delhi and Nairobi will run three times a week till August 31 before being discontinued from September 1 to September 30.
More than 15 routes will remain in operation at reduced frequency until the end of September, even with the partial restoration. These consist of
The number of weekly flights between Bengaluru and London (Heathrow) has been lowered from seven to six; starting on August 1, the number will drop to four. Beginning on August 1, the Delhi-Paris flight will operate seven times a week instead of twelve.
With effect from July 16, the Delhi-Milan flight will be lowered from four to three times per week, while the Delhi-Copenhagen service will continue to be lowered from five to three times per week.
Until August 31, the Delhi-Vienna and Amritsar-Birmingham flights will run three times a week instead of four and two times a week instead of three, respectively.
The number of weekly flights between Delhi and Birmingham has been lowered from three to two.
With frequency ranging from three to seven flights each week, North American destinations including Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and New York (JFK and Newark) continue to have decreased service.
There are still five weekly flights between Delhi and Melbourne and Delhi and Sydney.
The four international flights—Amritsar-London (Gatwick), Goa (Mopa)-London (Gatwick), Bengaluru-Singapore, and Pune-Singapore—remain halted till September 30.
According to Air India, impacted passengers are being proactively contacted to give full refunds or rebooking choices.
Some services that were originally scheduled to run from August 1 to September 30, 2025, will no longer be available since the Safety Pause schedule reductions were in place until July 31, 2025, and the restoration to full operation is being phased in. Affected customers are being proactively contacted by Air India to provide a complete refund or a rebooking on other flights, depending on their desire. In a statement, Air India expressed their regret for the inconvenience.
During the gradual restoration period, Air India would continue to operate around 525 foreign flights per week to 63 destinations, despite the occasional disruptions.
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