Air India, on Sunday, decided to resume flights to the US and Jet Airways to North America, three days after complete disruption of
west-bound flights from India due to volcanic plumes from Iceland over Europe. However, the flights for European destinations of all airlines continue to remain suspended.
Air India will operate its flights from Delhi to New York and New York to Delhi and also Mumbai-New York and New York-Mumbai flights from tonight with a diversion through the polar route, an Air India spokesperson said.
A polar route refers to an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap region. Delhi-JFK (New York) flight AI-101 will depart tonight at 0025 hours (IST) and reach and New York at 0825 (local time). Similarly, flights from New York AI-102 will leave at 17.05 hours (local time) and reach Delhi at 1915 hours (IST). The flight (AI-141) to New York will leave Mumbai at 0045 hours (IST) and reach the American city 0910 hours (local time).
Jet Airways has started its Delhi-Toronto and Mumbai-New York flights last night with a technical stop over at Athens in Greece.
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