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With Icelandic volcano once again spewing ash into the skies, leading to closure of airports in the United Kingdom and other European countries, private carrier Kingfisher Airlines on Monday cancelled its flights from Mumbai and Delhi to London. Flag carrier Air India (AI) too cancelled its Mumbai-London and Delhi-London flights. However, AI re-scheduled its Amritsar-London-Toronto flight at 3 pm which was scheduled to take off early in the day. Private carrier Jet Airways, which also flies to London, did not have any flight cancellations.A spokesperson from Kingfisher said, "Having assessed the current information received from Eurocontrol and the trends indicating anticipated closure of the airspace over London Heathrow Airport due to fresh contamination with volcanic ash, Kingfisher regrets to announce the cancellation of flights to and from London Heathrow on Monday."He further said because the situation is dynamic and ever changing, a decision for Tuesday's flights will be made closer to the departure time based on updates from Eurocontrol. The carrier has daily flights to London from Mumbai and Delhi.Last month, Indian carriers flying to European destinations lost Rs 20 crore every day owing to flight cancellations due to the huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that had precipitated the worst air travel chaos since the September 11 terror attacks. Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines had to cancel over 50 flights during those four days when all European airports were shut, hitting air travel to the US and Canada.An Air India spokesperson said that passengers who were stranded due to flight cancellation on Monday would be accommodated in a larger aircraft B747-400 on Tuesday along with passengers who are already booked on Tueday. The aircraft has a seating capacity for 400 passengers.The ash comes from a volcano in Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, which started erupting in March. In mid April, the continuing ash output started disrupting flights in and out of Europe, causing major economic and logistical havoc. Periodic airport closures across Europe have continued since mid April.
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