52 Air India Express flights canceled on Saturday

KOCHI: Air India Express services continued to be affected on Saturday even after its cabin crew who had been protesting since Tuesday evening resumed duty on Thursday evening.

The airline’s normal operations are expected to resume by Sunday or Monday. According to sources, the airline operated a total of 305 flights and canceled 52 flights across the country on Saturday.

Passengers at Kannur airport were agitated on Saturday after the airline canceled its flights to Dammam and Abu Dhabi at 5:15 am and 9:20 am respectively. Around 20 services from four airports in Kerala were canceled on Friday.

Similarly, air services to Sharjah, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi in the international sector and Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram in the domestic sectors were canceled from Kochi airport on Saturday.

Due to protests by cabin crew, around 400 AIX flights have been canceled over the past four days, since Wednesday.