Cabin crew constraints are impacting Air India’s extremely lengthy haul flights, with the Tatas-owned provider deciding to both reschedule or cancel sure providers to San Francisco and Vancouver, in line with airline sources.

The sources stated the airline is both delaying departures or cancelling a few of its extremely lengthy haul flights amid cabin crew shortages and the state of affairs is leading to inconvenience to passengers on this peak winter journey season.

Generally, extremely lengthy haul flights are these having length of greater than 16 hours.

“Air India flights AI-183/AI184 (Delhi-SFO-Delhi) for December 10 and December 13 stand cancelled,” Air India stated in an inner round on December 9.

In one other inner round, the airline stated that “due to cabin crew constraints its flights — AI101 and AI 102 (Delhi-New York-Delhi) as well as AI 185/ AI186 (Delhi-Vancouver-Delhi) were being rescheduled”.

The airline declined to touch upon the problem.

On Friday, Air India stated a few of its flights to North America had been getting delayed owing to airport entry go points for the cabin crew.

Amid an extended ready interval for US visas, the airline has been going through scarcity of cabin crew and senior pilots for extremely lengthy haul flights.

In the wake of the cabin crew crunch, Air India had just lately given an choice to its cabin crew who had opted for its voluntary retirement scheme to increase their launch date from the providers by as much as January 31, 2023.

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