Air India to suspend Delhi-Washington services from September

(Reuters) -Air India said in a statement on Monday that he would stop the services between the US and US capitals from 1 September and refer to aircraft scarcity due to planned upgrades to aging Boeing aircraft and Pakistan’s airspace.

The suspension of the services between the new Delhi and Washington, DC, indicates the latest setbacks for Air India, who faced an increasing regulatory examination after killing 260 people after an accident in Ahmedabad.

Carrier, Air India’s fleet and the ongoing closure of the airspace over Pakistan, longer flight routes and an increase in operational complexity that affects the long -distance operations of the airline, he said.

The airline undertook a 400 million dollar empowerment program to raise its fleet.

However, Reuters had previously reported, but the Pakistan airspace ban has cost 600 million dollars for 12 months.

India and Pakistan have closed their own airports to each other after a deadly attack against civilians in Indian Kashmir, after the relationships between belt patients who have triggered the worst war between neighbors for decades.

New Delhi blamed Islamabad for the accusations rejected by Islamabad.

Air India said that its brochures will have the options for choosing flights to Washington, DC, and the Interline Partners of Airlines in New York, Newark, Chicago, Chicago and San Francisco, Alaska Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines.

(Reporting by Hritam Mukhibee in Bengaluru;