Air India curbs Boeing 787 & 777 flights until July 15 amid scrutiny over Ahmedabad airplane crash

As Air India faces scrutiny over the security and upkeep of its Boeing plane, the Indian airline has launched a revised worldwide flight schedule, efficient from June 21 to July 15. The brand new roster adopted the airline firm’s announcement that it might quickly cut back companies on wide-body plane, together with Boeing 787s and 777s, by 15 per cent.

The transfer can also be coming within the wake of the Ahmedabad airplane crash, wherein a Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed right into a medical faculty in Ahmedabad, killing 241 folks onboard, with a lone survivor. In an announcement launched on Thursday, the airline confirmed that 83 worldwide flights utilizing Boeing 787s had already been cancelled between June 12, the day the crash occurred, and June 18.

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Additional to the press assertion launched yesterday, 18 June 2025, which introduced a short lived discount in companies operated by Boeing 787 and 777 plane, we want to present particulars on the flights affected.

These reductions might be efficient from 21 June 2025,…

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Aside from this, extra reductions might be applied by June 20 and prolonged till a minimum of mid-July. Air India argued that these cuts are aimed toward “guaranteeing stability of operations, bettering effectivity, and minimising last-minute inconvenience to passengers.”

What flights are getting affected?

The revised schedule contains the complete suspensions of choose routes, together with Delhi–Nairobi, Amritsar–London Gatwick and Goa (Mopa)–London Gatwick. There are additionally diminished frequencies on a number of North American, European, Far Japanese, and Australian routes.

Air India maintained that the choice to scale back the capability of flights stems from a number of components, i.e. ongoing enhanced security inspections, a cautious strategy by engineering employees and pilots, night time airspace curfews in elements of Europe and East Asia and geopolitical tensions within the Center East.

The airline acknowledged the inconvenience precipitated to the passengers by the change of the schedule and warranted that the travellers have been being proactively contacted and provided various flights, complimentary rescheduling, or full refunds. “Passengers will even be provided a option to reschedule their journey with none price or to be given a full refund, as per their alternative,” the airline mentioned in its assertion.

In the meantime, the airline firm additionally issued a journey advisory for passengers flying to or by the Center East, citing ongoing airspace volatility. The airline authorities famous that the revised schedule will progressively get up to date on airindia.com, the cell app and through the airline’s contact centres. “This successfully provides to our reserve plane availability to handle any unplanned disruptions,” the airline added. In the meantime, the Indian authorities have despatched the black field of the doomed Boeing plane to the US to retrieve the info from the broken machine.