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Iran assault on Israel: Air India suspends flight to Tel Aviv | India Recordsdata

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NEW DELHI:

Indian water

on Sunday mercurial suspended flights to

Tel Aviv

amid escalating tensions between Israel and

Iran

. An official said that the disclose flights between Delhi and Tel Aviv shall be suspended for now.
Air India runs four weekly flights connecting the national capital to an Israeli metropolis.

The Tata community-owned airline resumed Tel Aviv products and services on March 3, following a 5-month hiatus.

Flights to and from Tel Aviv were halted from October 7, 2023, post Hamas assault on the Israeli metropolis.

On the side of Air India, several western airlines flying to India occupy started warding off overflying Iran as a consequence of the looming threat of escalating rigidity within the placement. US President Joe Biden has said he expects Iran to assault Israel “earlier than later.” There are concerns that Iran might presumably per chance retaliate after its consulate in Syria changed into attacked currently.

Air India AI 161, for event, that took off from Delhi at 4.30 am on Saturday did now not overfly Iran and took an change path to London. As an different of the same outdated India-Pakistan-Iran-Turkey-Dark Sea path to Europe, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took a northern route. Thanks to AI composed overflying Russia, this possibility is available within the market to the airline. The the same flight a day earlier had overflown Iran.
Lufthansa’s flight to Mumbai on Friday took the Greece- Mediterranean Sea-Saudi Arabia-Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea path to Mumbai. Earlier it at threat of rob the Dark Sea-Iran-Pakistan path to Mumbai.
The alternate routes occupy now now not added tremendously to flying time of AI as it has the choice of overflying Russian airspace. Saturday’s Delhi-London flight will rob nearly 9 hours, similar as the timing for earlier routes.
The increased geopolitical tensions occupy added to the no jog zones for airlines. Commercial airliners steer clear of Afghanistan ever since the country changed into taken over by the Taliban; Russia’s war in Ukraine has made both the countries no overflying zones for most western airlines; US carriers were warding off Iran for some time now. The struggle zone lies on the foremost west-east route.

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