Air India cancels 28 Europe, US, Canada flights on March 1 amid Middle East tensions

NEW DELHI: Air India connected Saturday announced the cancellation of 28 planetary flights connecting India with cities successful Europe, the US and Canada for March 1, citing the evolving concern successful the Middle East.“As portion of our continuing appraisal of the evolving concern successful the Middle East, successful the involvement of the information and information of our guests and staff, Air India has cancelled the pursuing flights scheduled connected 01 March 2026,”the hose said successful a station connected X.

The affected services see flights betwixt Delhi and London (Heathrow), Mumbai and London (Heathrow), Amritsar and London (Gatwick), Delhi and New York (JFK), Mumbai and New York (JFK), Mumbai and Newark, Delhi and Chicago (via Vienna), Delhi and Toronto (via Vienna), Delhi and Frankfurt, Mumbai and Frankfurt, and Delhi and Paris.

“We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused to our valued guests by these disruptions, whom we are notifying of the cancellations and supporting with alternate options to minimise the inconvenience. We volition proceed to intimately show the concern and stock further updates based connected our hazard assessments,” the station added.Earlier, the hose had said successful a abstracted station that it was cancelling each flights to destinations successful the Middle East until 2359 hours connected March 1 owed to the “current concern successful the Middle East”.

“The information and information of our passengers, unit and craft stay our highest priority. We volition proceed to measure the concern and instrumentality due operational decisions arsenic necessary. Affected passengers are being informed, and our teams are providing each required assistance to our passengers, including rebooking and refunds,” the hose said.It comes arsenic earlier successful the time US-Israel attacked Iran successful coordinated strikes astatine aggregate locations, starting with areas near-by Iranian ultimate person Ayatollah Khamenei. Iran successful its retaliation targeted Israel, on with US subject bases and different allies successful the region.