It has been a really rough several days for Air India. Last week, we saw the crash of an Air India Boeing 787, in an accident that can only be described as tragic, horrific, and mysterious. With the cause of the accident still not known, regulators have ordered Air India to carry out inspections on its Dreamliner fleet.
In the aftermath of all of this, Air India has announced plans to significantly scale back its schedule in the coming weeks.
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Air India cuts 15% of wide body international flights
Air India has revealed plans to cancel roughly 15% of its wide body, international flights, over the coming weeks. These schedule updates will be implemented between June 18 and June 20, 2025, for travel through mid-July 2025.
Air India calls this a “temporary route curtailment,” and describes it as follows:
Due to the geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, night curfew in the airspaces of many countries in Europe and East Asia, the ongoing enhanced safety inspections, and also the necessary cautious approach being taken by the engineering staff and Air India pilots, there have been certain disruptions in our international operations over the last 6 days leading to a total of 83 cancellations.
Given the compounding circumstances that Air India is facing, to ensure stability of our operations, better efficiency and to minimise inconvenience to passengers, Air India has decided to reduce its international services on widebody aircraft by 15% for the next few weeks. The cuts will be implemented between now and 20 June and will continue thereafter until at least mid-July. This effectively adds to our reserve aircraft availability to take care of any unplanned disruptions.
As you can see, the airline claims this isn’t just about maintenance and having spare aircraft, but it’s also about tensions in the Middle East, challenges with night curfews, and more.
The airline includes a message about rebounding back, with the support of customers:
The curtailments are a painful measure to take, but are necessary following a devasting event which we are still working through and an unusual combination of external events. It is done to restore operational stability, and to minimise last-minute inconvenience to passengers. With the continued support of our passengers, the regulatory authorities, Ministry of Civil Aviation and India at large, we will come out stronger through this tragic incident and reestablish the confidence of our passengers and all stakeholders in our services, at the earliest.
Air India provides wide body aircraft inspection update
As part of the same announcement, Air India has provided an update on its Boeing 787 inspection program, also stating that it’s voluntarily inspecting its Boeing 777s:
The DGCA had mandated ‘Enhanced Safety Inspection’ across Air India’s Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft fleet. Out of total 33 aircraft, inspections have now been completed on 26 and these have been cleared for service, while inspection of the remainder will be complete in the coming days. The fact that 26 aircraft have been cleared gives reassurance in the safety measures and procedures that we follow. As a matter of added precaution, Air India will also undertake enhanced safety checks on its Boeing 777 fleet and, going forward, we will continue to cooperate with the authorities, viz AAIB, DGCA, MoCA to ensure the safety of our passengers, our crew and our aircraft, which remains our highest priority.
Bottom line
Air India is canceling roughly 15% of its international, wide body flights, over the coming weeks, in the aftermath of the awful accident we saw last week.
The airline claims to be making these cuts for a variety of reasons, including the need to inspect wide body aircraft, in order to ensure schedule integrity, and also in light of the conflict in the Middle East, which are making many flights longer.
What do you make of Air India reducing capacity?
One can see that the children are back again, playing their infantile games, posting false news and using multiple login accounts.
Poor, poor dears, they think that they are being so clever yet they are forever demonstrating their pathetic ignorance.
Thank you for the entertainment numpties.
well past your bedtime, mr "brit"
go home, Tim
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"Poor, poor dears, "
are you a writer from Peter Pan or the 19th century British rom-com? this is the lamest attempt at a british voice ever from a user that has claimed to be a retiree and a fresh young thing at the same time.
This reeks of Tim Dunn's extreme mental issues. To include Aero's immediate look to VPN usage to explain his placement in past posts.
You'll notice they rarely...
Also...
"Poor, poor dears, "
are you a writer from Peter Pan or the 19th century British rom-com? this is the lamest attempt at a british voice ever from a user that has claimed to be a retiree and a fresh young thing at the same time.
This reeks of Tim Dunn's extreme mental issues. To include Aero's immediate look to VPN usage to explain his placement in past posts.
You'll notice they rarely reply to one another but post on the same time zone and around the same time zones
You lamely attempt to write like Beatrix Potter or Jane Austin but always end up in the echo chamber of Tim Dunn and on his time zone. Posting about Delta and Airbus as the penultimate of aviation like no one else does... except Mr Dunn.
Get a life. This is sad. Truly sad.
The articles today about the sole survivor laying his brother to rest are heartbreaking. Kept trying to go back to the crash site to save his brother until someone got him to a hospital so he could receive medical care. Just awful. Air India needs to provide him with free mental health care for the rest of his life.
Well, the corrupt airline could give a shit about his overall mental well being.
In other words, the accident a few days ago is pointing towards,Air India!
Found this on a Guardian article :
Findings from the wreckage suggest the flaps and other control surfaces were correctly configured for takeoff, indicating the flight crew followed standard procedures, the newspaper said, citing investigators.
The report comes a day after India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said its own inspections found no “major safety concerns” in the Dreamliner fleet but did flag recurring maintenance issues.
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Other than mechanical issue...
Found this on a Guardian article :
Findings from the wreckage suggest the flaps and other control surfaces were correctly configured for takeoff, indicating the flight crew followed standard procedures, the newspaper said, citing investigators.
The report comes a day after India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said its own inspections found no “major safety concerns” in the Dreamliner fleet but did flag recurring maintenance issues.
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Other than mechanical issue due to poor maintenance causing both engines to go off, which is very odd and rare to happen. Another cause I can think of is that some bad Boeing software update caused the engines to shut.
The FADEC is updated regularly on aircrafts. The 787 FADEC is designed to shut down an engine if it detects conditions that would make continued operation unsafe or impossible, such as loss of fuel control, critical system faults, or catastrophic electrical/software failure
Eve, not wishing to sound pedantic, however, I must request to which “Guardian” are you referring?
South Wales Guardian?
Nigerian Guardian?
Guardian Series?
Perhaps post the website link?
try google. It's a useful search engine. The Guardian is very well known in the UK and globally. A real Brit wouldn't be asking if it's the "south wales Guardian".
Your fake profile is amusing but poorly researched.
FYI Plane Jane; he/she/it has multi fake profiles, commenting all over OMAAT like a rabid dog....
@Levaa
No doubt.
@plane jane:
Yeah. I thought that question about which guardian was rather dumb as well.
Why?