Air India will resume its normal flight operations to the US from today, January 21. In the past two days, Air India and other US-bound airlines around the world cancelled their flights in the last two days due to safety concerns surrounding the 5G rollout in the US on January 19. (US time).
International airlines from around the world have cancelled over 320 flights to and from the US by Wednesday evening following warnings from the FAA due to the rollout of high-speed wireless service interfering with aircraft technology that measures altitude.
Earlier in the day, the national carrier announced that the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) had granted it technical clearance to begin flying its Boeing 777 aircraft on January 20.
Following the FAA’s approval of certain aircraft, including most Airbus SE and Boeing Co models, including the Boeing 777, the airline resumed flights to the United States.
“Boeing has cleared Air India to operate in the USA on B777. Accordingly, first flight has left this morning to JFK. Other flights leaving in the day are to Chicago and SFO Arrangements to carry stranded passengers are being worked out. Matter regarding B777 flying into USA has been sorted,” the airline said in a statement.
International airlines from around the world have cancelled over 320 flights to and from the US by Wednesday evening following warnings from the FAA due to the rollout of high-speed wireless service interfering with aircraft technology that measures altitude.