The vacationers depart Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport after a hearth at Heathrow airport compelled their closure, which led to quite a few flight cancellations, in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Picture/Kakade Rajanish)
Nueva Delhi – all Air India flights to Heathrow have been suspended till Friday at midnight, mentioned the service in an announcement, including that “it can replace in regards to the resumption of operations as quickly as now we have extra data.”
The airline additionally mentioned that considered one of its flights needed to return within the air to Mumbai and one other was diverted to Frankfurt. The corporate didn’t specify what number of flights have been affected in complete.
Some passengers from the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport in New Delhi mentioned that they had been knowledgeable of cancellations, whereas others mentioned they have been nonetheless ready for the airline to offer various flights.
“As quickly as I entered to get my boarding go, they (airline employees) instructed us that the flight has been canceled and that there isn’t any flight for the subsequent two, three days,” mentioned passenger Vikas Swarup.
Emma Fulton, who was within the metropolis of Jaipur in India for a marriage, mentioned he obtained a textual content message on the way in which to the airport.
“We had a textual content message about 20 minutes earlier than arriving right here, however we have been already on the way in which,” he mentioned.