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Partial resumption of Mumbai flights

Staff Reporter

Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Air Deccan to operate extra flights today

BANGALORE: Flight operations between Bangalore and Mumbai resumed partially on Thursday, after the Mumbai airports were cleared for operations in the afternoon.

Some airlines, including Jet Airways and Air Deccan, are likely to operate extra flights to Mumbai on Friday to help passengers stranded in the city.

Indian Airlines operated only the 5 p.m. flight to Mumbai. Its 8.35 a.m., 11.40 a.m. and 8 p.m. flights were cancelled.

Jet Airways could not operate its regular flight schedule and had to accommodate the passengers in four flights, two of which took off from the city airport at 5 p.m.

The last flight for the day was scheduled for 8.55 p.m. All flights would be operated as per the normal schedule from Friday, an airlines source told The Hindu.

Air Sahara's 8.40 p.m. flight was scheduled to take off at 11 p.m. Its earlier flights were cancelled as the Mumbai airports were still not ready.

Fares

The backlog of passengers over the last two days would be accommodated in Friday's flights. Their APEX fares would also be protected, said an airlines official at the airport.

The two morning flights of Air Deccan were cancelled. A Bangalore-bound aircraft departed from the Mumbai domestic airport at about 4.15 p.m.

However, Air Deccan's flights from Delhi and Ahmedabad were among the first aircraft to land in Mumbai after the airport's clearance.

Since an Air Deccan aircraft was stuck in the Mumbai airport for the last days, the low-cost airliner had to reschedule some flights to other destinations.

"With one aircraft stuck, we had to make good with other aircraft. There were a couple of cancellations as well," Air Deccan's deputy head, planning, Rajesh Rajan, said.

He was, however, certain that all the flights would operate as per schedule from Friday.

Air Deccan is also likely to operate a couple of extra flights on Friday.

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