Air India will resume its flight operations to the US from January 21, Friday. The airline company along with other US-bound airlines around the world cancelled their operations over the safety concerns related to the 5G roll out in the US on January 19 in the last two days.
"Flight operations to/from destinations in the USA were affected during the last two days. We would like to inform our passengers travelling to/from destinations in the USA that effective 0001hrs of 21st January 2022 normal flights operations will recommence to/from USA," Air India said in a tweet.
On Tuesday, Air India announced that it will not be able to operate US-bound flights due to the deployment of the 5G communications.
The domestic airline had tweeted on Wednesday, January 19 -
"Due to deployment of the 5G communications in USA, we will not be able to operate the following flights of 19th Jan'22 -
AI101/102 DEL/JFK/DEL
AI173/174 DEL/SFO/DEL
AI127/126 DEL/ORD/DEL
AI191/144 BOM/EWR/BOM
Please standby for further updates.”
Air India had cancelled a total of eight flights on India-US routes on Wednesday due to deployment of 5G services in North America which could interfere with aircraft's radio altimeters. It was only on Thursday when the US aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that radio altimeters fitted in certain types of aircraft, including B777, will not be affected by 5G services that Air India decided to resume its flights.
An Air India spokesperson told PTI news agency that Boeing has cleared the carrier to operate to the US on B777 aircraft. As a result, Air India resumed six India-US flights on Boeing B777 aircraft on Thursday after the plane manufacturer gave the clearance to operate them. The airline also said all flights to the US will normalise from Friday.
The Air India flights that have resumed their operations from Thursday are Delhi-New York, New York-Delhi, Delhi-Chicago, Chicago-Delhi, Delhi- San Francisco, and San Francisco-Delhi.
