At this time, a very big and relief news is coming for the Indian aviation world and international traveling passengers. The country's leading airline company Air India has made a big change in the operation of its flights, giving a wonderful gift to the passengers traveling to western countries. After the reopening of Iraq's airspace, Air India has once again made its flights non-stop from Delhi and Mumbai to New York (JFK and Newark EWR) of America. Due to this big change, passengers traveling from India to America will now save about four hours of precious time. This is no less than a Diwali gift for the travelers who have been forced to undertake long and tiring journeys due to geopolitical tension and war in the last few months. Let us know in detail what changes have occurred in the travel routes due to the opening of airspace and how much benefit the passengers will get from it. Air India made flights from Delhi and Mumbai to New York non-stop again. Due to global tension for some time, there were frequent changes in the routes of international flights. But now the operations team of Air India has officially informed that from Wednesday, the flights running between Delhi and Mumbai to New York have started running non-stop again without any interruption. It is worth remembering that a few months ago, due to the war and tense situation between America and Iran (which started around February 28), airlines had to change their routes due to security reasons. The situation was so serious that these flights going from Delhi and Mumbai to New York had to take a technical stop (fueling stop) midway at Rome (Fiumicino Airport) in Italy. Due to this technical stoppage, the total travel time of passengers increased to almost 20 hours, causing great inconvenience to the elderly and passengers traveling on long journeys. But now after the opening of Iraq's airspace, there has been a big relief from this problem and now this journey will be completed within just 15 to 16 hours. Risk rating of airspace of Iraq, Syria and Jordan reduced, shorter route found. Safety is the first priority in the operation of international flights. According to Air India sources, recently a security review of the airspace of Middle East countries like Iraq, Syria and Jordan was conducted, after which their risk rating was reduced. After the reduction in risk rating, a relatively shorter and safer air route has become available to airlines. As a result, the Rome stop has been completely removed from all flights going from Delhi to Newark (Delhi-EWR), Delhi to JFK (Delhi-JFK), Mumbai to Newark (Mumbai-EWR) and Mumbai to JFK (Mumbai-JFK). However, experts also say that due to the closure of Pakistan's airspace in this region since April, the routes of planes going from Delhi to the west have already become longer, which affects the weight and fuel management of the planes. Despite this, with the opening of Iraq's airspace, Air India has had great success in running its New York flights non-stop. Further plans of pilots and airlines: Relief in winter, but the weather will be monitored in the future. According to aviation experts and experienced pilots, although at present the opening of Iraq's airspace has brought a big relief, due to the closure of Pakistan's airspace, the effect of 'load penalty' (i.e. the compulsion to limit the number of passengers or cargo to refuel the plane) on flights still partially remains. At present, there is every possibility that all these flights will continue to operate completely non-stop in the coming months of November and December. However, in the month of January, the direction of the upper winds changes and the jet streams become stronger, in such a situation, if the weight of the aircraft and fuel consumption is high, then technical fuel stops may have to be imposed again for some time during the winter in the coming few months. Apart from this, Air India also hopes that Iran's airspace will also be completely opened in the coming days, which will also significantly increase the number of other non-stop flights to the West. If the geopolitical conflict between America and Iran stops completely in the coming time, then Air India is planning to extensively increase its capacity and frequency of flights on the routes of Western countries including North America.
