Air India flights diverted: Bad weather affects 2 UK-bound planes

NEW DELHI: Two Air India flights bound for the UK were diverted owed to adverse upwind conditions, forcing 1 craft to divert and different to hold landing, the hose said connected Thursday.Flight AI131 operating from Mumbai to London Heathrow was diverted to London Gatwick connected 9 January aft mediocre upwind conditions made landing astatine Heathrow unsafe. The craft landed safely astatine Gatwick, and passengers were provided assistance pursuing the diversion, an Air India spokesperson said.In a abstracted incident, formation AI117 flying from Amritsar to Birmingham was incapable to onshore astatine its destination airdrome due to the fact that of akin weather-related issues.

The craft was required to clasp successful the aerial arsenic conditions remained unfavourable.Air India said the disruptions were caused wholly by adverse upwind astatine the destination airports. The hose added that it was extending each indispensable enactment to affected travellers arsenic per modular procedures. "Flight AI131 operating from Mumbai to London Heathrow was diverted to London, Gatwick connected 9 January owed to adverse upwind conditions astatine the destination airport. The craft had landed safely astatine Gatwick and each passengers were extended assistance. Similarly, AI117 operating from Amritsar to Birmingham could not onshore astatine the destination airdrome and had to clasp owed to adverse upwind conditions," Air India Spokesperson said.