El Al Airlines announced the indefinite suspension of flight services to Mumbai and Delhi, along with the early termination of some seasonal routes on Thursday.
Flight cancellation
The primary cause of flight cancellations for airlines often stems from weather-related factors like hurricanes, thunderstorms, blizzards, and fog.
Although airlines aim to avoid canceling flights due to weather, it’s safer to halt a flight at its point of origin rather than risk dangerous operations or potentially have multiple aircraft in the air that may need to divert to alternate airports.
A recent investigative report suggests that the surge in flight delays and cancellations in the US might continue for up to a decade.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport saw severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, which resulted in 100 American Airlines flight diversions and hundreds of cancellations
Europe’s travel disruptions restart to worsen as the German national carrier, Lufthansa, plans to scrap an additional 2,000 flights until the end of next month. These latest cuts bring the total number of revoked flights to nearly 6,000, but even the massive number can’t seem to lighten the chaos in the aviation industry.
If you’ve read the news in the last few months, you may have seen the dozens of cancelations plaguing airlines every week. However, there are some statistically right times to fly, when the cases of cancelation are reduced dramatically. Here’s a look at the best time to fly to avoid being stranded in an airport.
Tens of thousands who planned to fly this summer from Heathrow and Gatwick will be impacted by the wave of cancellations that occurred over the past few weeks.
The airlines in the US blame bad weather and the Federal Aviation Administration, an arm of the Transportation Department that manages the nation’s airspace for cancellations, information AP.
Due to workforce shortages across the aviation industry, Lufthansa and Eurowings have become the latest carriers to cancel flights