Iran hassle: IndiGo cancels some flights; Air India stops Iran overflying on Europe flights | India Information

NEW DELHI: With the Iran disaster simmering, IndiGo has cancelled its Tbilisi, Almaty, Tashkent and Baku flights until Jan 28. Air India, which had been overflying the safer japanese elements of Iran on its flights to and from North America, will now study the state of affairs as soon as the identical resume after the snowstorm on the east coast in a day or so. “In view of the prevailing state of affairs and after cautious evaluation, IndiGo flights scheduled to function on Jan 26, 27 and 28, 2026, to and from Tbilisi, Almaty, Tashkent and Baku have been cancelled,” IndiGo stated on X Sunday.Air India flights to and from Europe had stopped overflying Iran after a Jan 16 advisory from European Union Aviation Security Company (EASA). “Given the continued state of affairs and the potential for US navy motion, which has positioned Iranian air defence forces on a heightened state of alert, there’s presently an elevated probability of misidentification inside (Iranian airspace). The presence and potential use of a variety of weapons and air-defence programs, mixed with unpredictable state responses and the potential activation of SAM programs, creates a excessive danger to civil flights working in any respect altitudes and flight ranges…. Air operators mustn’t function inside the airspace of Iran in any respect altitudes and flight ranges,” EASA advisory had stated.AI has since then not been overflying Iran on flights to and from Europe because the advisory is for “third nation operators authorised by EASA, when conducting operations to, from and inside the EU.” AI and plenty of different airways are overflying Iraq. As soon as East Coast flights resume, AI will take a name primarily based on the state of affairs that point relating to overflying the safer japanese a part of Iran.The state of affairs is dynamic and airways are taking selections in actual time, very ceaselessly altering course of their enroute flights in troubled West Asia