Barely a day after Civil Aviation Minister Ajith Singh promised to restore the cancelled Air India and Air India Express flights from Kerala, Air India announced cancellation of 18 flights to Middle East from Trivandrum International Airport.
The airline has cancelled nine flights from Trivandrum to Dubai, six to Sharjah and three to Muscat till October 12, according to Air India Trivandrum station manager SSG Jacob.
He said that the passengers who booked tickets in these flights were being informed through phone.
The official said that the airline had also made alternate arrangements to carry the passengers to their respective destinations.
Majority of the passengers will be accommodated in the flights on the next day.
Jacob said the cancelled flights will be restored after the completion of the first phase of Haj operations. The airline is preparing a new schedule in this regard.
It will be operating flights from October 12 according to the new schedule.The cancellations are due to diversion of flights for Haj operations. Jacob said two flights operated from Trivandrum to Gulf destinations were diverted to Lucknow for carrying the Haj pilgrims. Ajith Singh had promised to restore the cancelled flights and not to cancel any further flights in the Kerala-Gulf sector following huge protests from various quarters over the abrupt cancellation of the Trivandrum-Sharjah flight on Saturday.
He had given an assurance in this regard to member of parliament from Trivandrum Shashi Tharoor, who had pointed out that the frequent cancellation of flights were causing hardships to hundreds of passengers.
Thousands of passengers were left in the lurch as the airline cancelled as many as 168 flights from the three airports in the state to various countries in the Gulf in the last one month.
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