The Hindu Business Line : Air India may withdraw service to Los Angeles, Seoul

The national carrier is likely to withdraw the flights being operated to Los Angeles and Seoul. Air India is also looking to rationalise operations to London and is weighing the option of stopping flights to Osaka.

The changes in schedule are likely to come into effect from September.

At the moment Air India operates three times a week to Los Angeles a flight which goes through Frankfurt. The airline is looking at a code-share operation with the South Korean airline, Asiana on the India-South Korea route.

The airline also plans to terminate the Delhi-London-New York flight in the UK and is looking to operate a Boeing 777 aircraft on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai-London route. Air India is also considering operating a Boeing 777 aircraft on the four times a week flight to Tokyo and plans to put an Airbus A-310 aircraft on the daily flight operated on the Mumbai-Delhi-Hong Kong route.

Air India has decided that it should not utilise the Airbus A-330 aircraft currently used on the India-UK route as it was not suitable to operate long-haul flights.

These ideas were thrown up at a review of the airline route network which was undertaken by a group of senior airline executives headed by the Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Raghu Menon, in Mumbai over the week end.

“The new schedule with the changes in the flights will be announced in the next day or two and a final decision on the routes to shut down and which to focus on will be known then,” official sources told Business Line.

Although no immediate figures were available on the quantum of services being curtailed in the international network, sources said the airline had already reduced its domestic services by about 10 per cent.

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