Air India to partially restore international flight services from August 1

The airline will resume some of the flights starting from August 1, while full-restoration is planned for October 1, a statement said.

The company said the pause helped the airline conduct additional precautionary checks on its Boeing 787 aircraft. 

The Tata group-owned airline will resume thrice-weekly flights between Ahmedabad and London Heathrow from August 1 to September 30.

This will replace the currently operating five-times-a-week flights between Ahmedabad and London (Gatwick), the statement said.

Following the partial restoration, Air India will operate more than 525 international flights per week on 63 short, long and ultra long-haul routes, it said.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad began to lose thrust and crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12.

All but one of the 242 people on board and 19 others on the ground were killed.