India prepares for flight disruptions
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India is considering drawing up alternative plans in case the fresh volcanic eruption in Iceland threatens to disrupt flights to western Europe.”Britain has asked airlines to assess the situation before operating flights. As of now, it seems UK and other important European cities could get hit,” a senior official who attended a meeting called by Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi was quoted saying in a Times of India report. ” We have asked Indian carriers to draw up alternate routes to and from North America over the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and also to western Europe. We will start work on getting them permission to have technical halts to pick up and drop passengers from Athens, Rome, Cairo and airports in unaffected European cities.” “There is a serious anxiety factor among travellers. Agents and airlines are getting queries from thousands of passengers about flight status,” Anil Kalsi, Chairman of Travel Agent Federation of India’s North Indian chapter, was quoted saying.”So far, there have been no cancellations … but those who are still making travel plans to the west have put them on hold.”
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