United puts San Francisco-Delhi, Newark-Mumbai flights on hold

The present stoppage comes because the carrier has stopped flying over Russian airspace

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US’ United airlines has stopped flights from India to the US temporarily. Incidentally, United was one of the three carriers doing the US-India flights. The present stoppage comes because the carrier has stopped flying over Russian airspace.

American Airlines does not use Russian airspace since it does not have the green signal for doing so for Delhi-New York JFK flights. United was using Russian airspace for quite some time. In fact, United

United has cancelled the San Francisco-Delhi (and return) on March 1-12, 2022 (UA867) and the Newark – Mumbai (and return) on March 1-12, 2022 (UA829/UA830). This is what United said in a statement: “United has decided to temporarily suspend transiting Russian airspace to operate our flights to and from BOM (Mumbai) and DEL (Delhi) India. While some routes are possible to fly, we are unable to operate our full India operation. Our SFO-DEL and EWR-BOM routes will be cancelled for the next few days, as we evaluate any available options for those unique routes.”

Air India continues flying between Delhi and San Francisco using the Russian airspace

“We do, however, have available routes outside Russia, which allow us to continually operate the ORD-DEL and EWR-DEL routes.”

“We may have additional adjustments to our flight schedule for India in the days ahead as the situation develops, but we remain in close communication with our crews in India.”

Air India continues flying between Delhi and San Francisco using the Russian airspace.

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