Company foresees restarting part of international calls from August 1
Air India airline announced the partial resuming of the international routes suspended after the AI171 flight accident, which left 260 dead in June, falling seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad’s Indian city.
Air India has announced “the partial replacement of the reduced hours under its ‘security break’, adopted after the tragic AI171 accident on June 12, 2025,” the carrier said in a statement released on Tuesday night.
The company foresees to restart part of the international calls from August 1, with the objective of completely restoring its network until October 1st.
The changes include the operation of three weekly flights between Ahmedabad and London-Heathrow airport, between August 1 and September 30, replacing the previous five connections to Gatwick-the route where the accident occurred.
During this break, the company carried out additional inspections to its 787 Boeing Airplanes and adjusted operations compared to the closing of airspace over Pakistan and the Middle East.
The accident involved a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to London, which lost power shortly after offspring in Ahmedabad and drew it, causing the death of 241 out of 242 people on board, plus 19 victims on land.
Following the disaster, Air India has reduced several international routes, including frequencies for Europe, the United States and Pacific Asia.
In an internal note addressed to employees on Monday, the company’s executive president, Campbell Wilson, called on to caution and rejection of “premature conclusions”, ensuring that the initial investigation “confirms that there were no problems with fuel, maintenance or technical or mechanical failures”.
The message helped calm strategic markets and partners such as Boeing, whose actions rose after the preliminary report, which did not point to conception defects.
According to the Air Accident Investigation Authority (AAIB), all mandatory maintenance were up to date, although it was identified that Air India did not perform recommended inspections in 2018 by the US Aviation Agency (FAA) to the fuel cutting mechanism – a system that will have failed after decay.
The company’s mother company, the Tata Conglomerate, is trying to contain reputational damage while the official investigation is due, whose final report is expected within one year.
