Air India withdraws 10 routes in three years
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Air India has withdrawn 10 direct flights to international destinations in the last three years.
The discontinuation of flights is mainly due to poor passenger load. The airline which operated flights from 59 domestic destinations, started flights to six new international destinations during the same period.
“AI had withdrawn its services on Mumbai-Nairobi-Mumbai, Chennai-Kuala Lumpur-Chennai, Calicut-Mumbai-Kuwait, Bangalore-Singapore-Bangalore, Hyderabad-Sharjah-Hyderabad sectors in 2010,” Minister of State for Civil Aviation, K C Venugopal told the Lok Sabha.
In 2011, the national carrier withdrew its services on Chennai-Dammam-Chennai sector, while services on Cochin-Kozhikode-Dammam, Trivandrum-Dammam, Mumbai-Dammam, Hyderabad-Dammam and Amritsar-Delhi-Toronto sector were cancelled last year, reported the Economic Times.
