Air India is going to restore some international flights that it paused after the June 12 Ahmedabad crash, from August 1, an official statement said on Tuesday. The full restoration of flights is planned from October 1, 2025.
A total of 260 people, including the crew, died after Air India flight AI 171 crashed moments after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on June 12. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane crashed into a hostel near the airport.
“The partial resumption will see restoration of some frequencies from 1st August, relative to July, with full restoration planned from 1st October 2025,” the statement said.
That pause enabled Air India to perform additional precautionary checks on its Boeing 787 aircraft as well as accommodate longer flying times arising from airspace closures over Pakistan and the Middle East, the Tata Group-owned airline added in the statement.
Air India also announced that it will reduce the number of flights operating on certain routes. From August 1 to September 30, Air India will operate three weekly flights from Ahmedabad to London’s Heathrow Airport, as compared to the earlier five flights between Ahmedabad and London’s Gatwick Airport.
The airline also reinstated the previously curtailed 24 weekly flights between Delhi and London’s Heathrow Airport from July 16 onwards.
Also, from August 1, Air India will operate five weekly flights instead of the earlier four, from Delhi to Zurich in Switzerland.
Additionally, the number of Air India flights to several North American cities, including Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Vancouver, remains slightly reduced.
Apart from them, Air India flights to two Australian cities, Melbourne and Sydney, will remain reduced from seven to five weekly flights.
“As the schedule reductions taken as part of the Safety Pause had been implemented until 31 July 2025 and the restoration to full operation is being phased, some services initially planned to operate between 1 August and 30 September 2025 will be removed from the schedule,” Air India added.
