An official said Air India, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic operated their flights to LHR on Saturday morning, and another Air India flight is scheduled to depart in the afternoon.
Bengaluru set to be the only city in India with non-stop flights to both London's Heathrow and Gatwick
British Airways is set to fully refurbish all of its London Heathrow Airport lounges over the next five years, starting with the Terminal 5 Arrivals Lounge.
Storm Gerrit: Heathrow Airport, the UK's main travel hub, cancelled several flights because of air traffic control restrictions on domestic routes.
With the launch of this news service to Bengaluru, scheduled for March 31, 2024, the airline will offer almost 500,000 seats each year between the UK and India, signalling its commitment to the country, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Heathrow, Britain's busiest airport, said it had deployed extra staff to manage the queues and was working with Border Force to help resolve the problem.
The number of flights from Delhi will rise from 14 to 17 a week and from Mumbai from 12 to 14 times a week
The airport capped the number of passenger departures at 100,000 a day in July and in August extended the cap until October 29 in a move to limit queues, baggage delays and flight cancellations after struggling to cope with a rebound in travel.
There are 102 direct flights a week between India and Heathrow airport — British Airways (41), Virgin Atlantic (21), Air India (33) and Vistara (seven).
Britain's busiest airport, like others across Europe, is struggling to cope as demand rebounds after the pandemic. Heathrow had between 110,000 and 125,000 daily passenger departures in July and August 2019.
The flight was carrying 300 passengers who landed in the US almost three hours later than planned and were forced to wait on the runway while a qualified replacement was found.
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Replying to supplementaries on the expansion of Tuticorin airport, the Minister said the request for expansion of the airport was for first made in 2004 which is being diligently pursued by the Ministry.
The offer is valid on flights booked from Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. The scheme is part of the company's new brand campaign, a short film titled 'Fuelled by Love', inspired by a real-life experience of a British Airways cabin crew member.
Jet Airways, which posted its biggest ever quarterly loss, expects the deal to close by the end of the calendar year. While the cabinet has cleared the deal, the Competition Commission of India‘s (CCI) approval is still pending.
European Union will approve merger between AMR Corp's American Airlines and US Airways to become the rowld's largest carrier after agreeing to cede slots on a transatlantic route.
London's Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights on Sunday and airlines scrapped 40 percent of flights to Paris's main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe, with more forecast.
Heathrow airport operator BAA has coped well with the influx of passengers flying into London for the Olympics and is confident it will handle the busiest day of Games flight arrivals so far on Thursday, its CEO said.