As chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged British Airways(BA) to resume direct London-Kolkata flights, BA is all set to resume its direct flights between Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport.
A day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged British Airways to resume direct flights between London and Kolkata, senior officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the West Bengal government convened a high-level meeting to explore new international connectivity options from Kolkata.
The ministry of civil aviation has prioritised Kolkata airport in a major push to enhance international air connectivity, facilitating better access to Europe and Asia.
IT issues have forced the cancellation of 43 British Airways flights scheduled to depart and arrive into London's Heathrow airport.
Across the world, airlines have zero to minimal operations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak which has infected over 3.1 million people across the world.
The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said on Friday the strikes were a "last resort" born out of "enormous frustration" with airline management.
'Lufthansa said in a statement that 'as safety is the number one priority of Lufthansa, the airline has temporarily suspended its flights to Cairo today as a precaution'.'
The other three cities where the airline is operating the 275-seater A-350 are Cape Town in South Africa and Phoenix in Arizona state and Las Vegas in Nevada state in the US.
According to the report issued on Tuesday, Boeing did report some orders for the other jets in late March, even in the wake of the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet and the grounding of the 737 MAX that followed, reports CNN.
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders recently announced the end of the A380, the largest commercial aircraft ever built.
