Unpaid oil bills ground four Air India flights

Thiruvananthapuram, May 27 : Four Air India flights were cancelled Friday as oil companies refused to give the national carrier fuel following huge outstanding bills, an official said here.An Air India spokesperson said two flights from Kochi and one each from Thiruvanathapuram (to Chennai) and Kozhikode (Air India Express flight to Muscat) were cancelled.

"Two flights from Kochi -- Air India Express flight to Sharjah and a domestic one to Bangalore -- have also been cancelled. But we are able to operate the Riyadh flight from Thiruvananthapuram via Kochi that is carrying 400 passengers," said the Air India official, who did not wish to be identified.

Meanwhile, top company officials have started damage control exercise.

"The outstanding bills run into crores of rupees. Payment was done on the basis of cash and carry, but some problem has cropped up. We are hopeful that things would be sorted out soon," said the official.

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Unpaid oil bills ground four Air India flights

Four Air India flights were cancelled Friday as oil companies refused to give the national carrier fuel following huge outstanding bills, an official said here.

An Air India spokesperson said two flights from Kochi and one each from Thiruvanathapuram (to Chennai) and Kozhikode (Air India Express flight to Muscat) were cancelled.

"Two flights from Kochi -- Air India Express flight to Sharjah and a domestic one to Bangalore -- have also been cancelled. But we are able to operate the Riyadh flight from Thiruvananthapuram via Kochi that is carrying 400 passengers," said the Air India official, who did not wish to be identified.

Meanwhile, top company officials have started damage control exercise.

"The outstanding bills run into crores of rupees. Payment was done on the basis of cash and carry, but some problem has cropped up. We are hopeful that things would be sorted out soon," said the official.

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Oil companies' decision force AI to cancel flights

Kochi, May 27 : With the decision of Oil Companies to reduce the quota of aviation spirit to Air India because of non- payment of dues, the Air India was forced to cancel many of its flights operating from the three airports in the state due to fuel shortage.

The immediate decision of rationing fuel by the oil companies disarrayed the operation of Air India flights in the state, resulting in cancellation of four flights today.

According to the Airline sources, they had already cancelled flight no AI 519, Kochi-Bangazlore, Flight night IS 411 Kochi-Sharja, flight no AI 511 Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai and flight no IX 337 Kozhikode-Muscut, due to the scarcity of fuel.

However, the Air India was trying to accommodate the passengers in other flights to avoid hardships to passengers, the sources said, adding the passengers who had booked for Bangalore would be accomomdated to their Agathi-Kochi-Bangalore flight.

If the Oil Companies continued the rationing system, they would be forced to re-schedule many of their flights, which would force them to operate many flights to single operations, instead of operating flights to a single destination, the sources added.

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International flights not affected in Thiruvananthapuram

International flights not affected in Thiruvananthapuram - Times Of India You are here: Home>Collections>ChennaiRELATED KEYWORDS:Chennai|Air India|KochiInternational flights not affected in ThiruvananthapuramPTI, Apr 27, 2011, 06.54pm ISTTags:Air India

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Three domestic flights of Air India from Thiruvananthapuram were cancelled due to a strike by pilots belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines demanding pay parity with AI pilots.

Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai and two flights to Mumbai were cancelled, Air India sources said. However, all international flights of Air India from the International Airport here operated as per schedule, they said.

Air India sources at Kochi said the Air India Kozhikode-Delhi flight was cancelled this morning, while the Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai flight was clubbed with an evening flight.

There has been no disruptions from Kochi, they said. AI 658 Kozhikode-Delhi via Coimbatore and Mumbai, which was scheduled to leave at 2 PM has been cancelled. Either the tickets of the 46 passengers would be refunded or they would be endorsed to other carriers, the sources said.

The Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai AI flight at 9.40am has been clubbed with AI flight at 4pm.

A Dubai flight from Kozhikode was operated at 10am, the sources said.

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