Air India to operate Amritsar-London flight thrice a week
Amritsar, February 15: Air India, under the TATA group, has announced to increase the frequency of its direct Amritsar-London Heathrow flight to three flights per week from March 27. Earlier, only one flight was operational.
Global convener of FlyAmritsar Initiative and overseas secretary of Amritsar Vikas Manch, Sameep Singh Gumtala, and founder chairman of SEVA Trust, UK, Charan Kanwal Singh Sekhon said following the Covid outbreak, regular international flights were hampered.
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Sameep Singh Gumtala said as per the latest update on Air India’s website, AI flight 170 would take off from London Heathrow on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and the flight from Amritsar will depart on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The airline operates a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft on this route and the booking of these direct flights is available till the end of October 2022 (end of summer schedule for airlines). Currently, the flights between India and UK are operating under the air bubble set up by India with many countries.
Air India is also currently operating one-weekly direct Amritsar-Birmingham flight.
"For the benefit of the entire Punjabi and Indian diaspora in the UK, who want to travel direct to Punjab, we have campaigned hard along with the Amritsar Vikas Manch and worked with full sincerity for over five years," he said.
"We raised this issue with the Central Government, Punjab Government, UK Government, Indian High Commission as well as the Civil Aviation authorities and Air India highlighting this genuine demand for London to Punjab direct flights. We would like to thank the Indian Government, Air India and Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri for launching direct flights from London Stansted to Punjab in 2019 and now TATA that has decided to increase the frequency of these flights from March onwards," said Sekhon.
-PTC News
