Air India International Flights To Resume Post Ahmedabad Plane Crash From August 1

July 18, 2025 | Dubai, UAE – India’s leading airline, Air India International Flights, made an important announcement on July 15th that it would gradually resume its flight operations that were halted after the tragic accident of the Ahmedabad plane crash. 

Air India International Flights are set to continue on their routes after the Ahmedabad plane crash of Flight AI171 on June 12. The airline had halted services as a ‘Safety Pause’ to conduct additional precautionary checks on its Boeing 787 aircraft and to accommodate longer flight times due to airspace closures over Pakistan and the Middle East. The continuation of Air India International Flights will see a shift in timings and a change of routes due to the recent national and international tragedies.

As scheduled, Air India International Flights will begin its partial restoration by August 1, 2025, while it plans to completely resume services by October 1, 2025. 

Updates Information On Several Air India International Flights Routes

1. New route:

• Ahmedabad – London (Heathrow): Air India International Flight from Ahmedabad to Heathrow will drop to 3 weekly instead of 5 flights that departed to Gatwick, London. 

2.  Increase Due To Resumed Flights

• Delhi – London (Heathrow):
• Effective From: July 16, 2025
• Changes: Addition of two more flights, adding to the total of 24 weekly flights

• Delhi – Zurich: 
• Effective From: August 1, 2025
• Changes: Addition of one more flight, adding to the total of 5 weekly flights

• Delhi – Tokyo (Haneda): 
• Effective From: August 1, 2025
• Changes: Resumption of two weekly flights

• Delhi – Seoul (Incheon):
• Effective From: September 1, 2025
• Changes: Reinstated two more flights, adding to the total of 5 weekly flights

3. Frequencies Facing A Drop

• Bengaluru – London (Heathrow): 
• Effective From: August 1, 2025
• Changes: There was already a drop to six flights which will now reduce to four weekly flights.

• Amritsar – Birmingham:
• Effective from: August 31st and September 1, 2025
• Changes:Air India will have a drop to 2 flights till August 31st but will return to three weekly flights from September.

• Delhi – Paris: 
• Effective From: August 1 2024
• Changes: Sharp decrease from 12 to seven weekly flights.

• Delhi – Milan: 
• Effective From: July 16, 2025
• Changes: Reduced from four to three weekly flights 

• Delhi – Copenhagen: Reduced from five to three weekly flights.

• Delhi – Vienna: Reduced from four to three weekly flights.

• Delhi – Amsterdam: Effective From: July 16, 2024
• Changes: A drop was seen from seven to five flights, but the service will continue as daily.

• Delhi – Washington (Dulles): Remains reduced from five to three weekly flights.

• Delhi – Chicago: Remains reduced from 7 to 3 weekly flights, with four weekly flights in August.

• Delhi – San Francisco: Reduced from 10 to 7 weekly flights.

• Delhi – Toronto: Reduced from 13 to seven weekly flights.

• Delhi – Vancouver: Reduced from seven to four weekly flights.

• Delhi – New York (JFK): Reduced from seven to six weekly flights from July 16.

• Mumbai – New York (JFK): Reduced from seven to six weekly flights from August 1.

• Delhi – New York (Newark Liberty): Reduced from five to four weekly flights from July 16.

• Delhi – Melbourne: Reduced from seven to five weekly flights.

• Delhi – Sydney: Reduced from seven to five weekly flights.

• Delhi – Nairobi: Service reinstated with three weekly flights until August 31, but will be halted in September.

4. Temporary suspensions: 

Several routes will remain temporarily suspended until September 30, as noted:

• Amritsar-London (Gatwick) 
• Flight name: AI169/170
• Frequency: 3 weekly flights

• Goa (Mopa)-London (Gatwick)
• Flight name: AI145/146
• Frequency: 3 weekly flights

• Bengaluru-Singapore
• Flight name: AI2392/2393
• Frequency: 7 weekly flights

• Pune-Singapore
• Flight name: AI2111/2110
• Frequency: 5 weekly flights

Details of the Ahmedabad Plane Crash Tragedy

Air India International Flight AI171, headed to London, was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. It crashed soon after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. It suffered from a sudden loss of engine power and slammed into the hostel of the B.J. Medical College campus, in the Civil Hospital complex. The disaster claimed 260 lives, of which 241 were passengers and 19 crew on board.

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