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Air India has said it will operate flight services between Ahmedabad and London Heathrow from August 1, replacing the existing Ahmedabad-Gatwick route, and announced a partial resumption of services on domestic and international routes which it had suspended last month after the fatal Boeing 787-8 plane crash.
According to PTI, At the same time, the suspension of services on Amritsar-London (Gatwick), Goa (Mopa)-London (Gatwick), Bengaluru-Singapore and Pune-Singapore would continue till September 30, the airline said.
The Tata Group airline had last month decided to observe a “Safety Pause” in the aftermath of the June 12 Boeing 787-8 plane crash that killed 260 people.
The partial resumption will see restoration of some frequencies from August 1, relative to July, with full restoration planned from October 1, Air India said.
On June 12, the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner began to lose thrust within seconds of taking off from the Ahmedabad Airport and ploughed into a medical college hostel, killing all but one of the 242 onboard and another 19 on the ground in the deadliest aviation accident in a decade.
The airline said that the pause enabled it to perform additional precautionary checks on its Boeing 787 aircraft as well as accommodate longer flying times arising from airspace closures over Pakistan and the Middle East.
