India: A Delhi-Paris Air India flight, AI 143, has been cancelled for Tuesday after “mandatory pre-flight checks identified an issue”, the airline said in a statement this evening. Consequently, Air India flight AI 142, scheduled to fly from Paris to Delhi on Wednesday, had also been cancelled.
The issue flagged by pre-flight checks “is being addressed”, the airline said, but the delay means AI 143 will run afoul of restrictions on night-time ops at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
This is the second Air India flight cancellation in quick succession; hours earlier the airline confirmed its Ahmedabad-London Gatwick service had been scrapped and cited an unavailability of aircraft due to airspace restrictions and additional precautionary checks.
