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EDITOR IN CHIEF- ABDULLAH BIN SALIM AL SHUEILI

Air India comes to the aid of flood-hit Kochi

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MUSCAT: From the moment, operations were suspended at Cochin Airport, Air India along with its subsidiary Air India Express swung into action and took the lead in announcing steps taken to help affected passengers through waiver of applicable penalties on re-issuance, date change, no-show, cancellation and refund charges for travel from/to Kochi, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram for both Domestic and International flights, on confirmed tickets issued on or before August 17.


Regular updates of other relief measures were uploaded round the clock through the official social media platform and through the call centres of Air India and Air India Express, states a press release.


Most Air India and Air India Express flights operating from Kochi Airport to destinations to the Gulf, like Dubai and to other stations like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, were rescheduled to operate from Thiruvananthapuram


As an exemplary initiative to fly out stranded people, AI’s subsidiary Alliance Air operated a non-commercial ‘proving flight’ on an ATR (turboprop) to Kochi’s naval base with a team of DGCA, AAI and Flight Safety officials. Flight 9I 105 landed at Kochi at 1240 hours from Bangalore and the return flt 9I106 took off from Kochi at 1345 hours. This whole exercise is aimed at confirming the feasibility of having Alliance Air operate more flights to Cochin’s defence airbase with turboprops to evacuate passengers, the release adds.


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