NEW DELHI -- Air India, the nation's flag carrier, may resume flights to Frankfurt and London's Heathrow airport from Tuesday night to clear the backlog of about 3,000 Europe-bound passengers who are currently stranded in India, the civil aviation ministry said Tuesday.
"Indications have been received that the Heathrow Airport may get operational for limited hours from Tuesday night, in which case, Air India will start Europe operations depending upon the availability of slots there," the ministry said.
European air-safety regulators Monday agreed to relax the flight bans, which prompted airlines such as British Airways PLC, Air France-KLM SA and Dubai's Emirates to announce that they would restart flights.
Monday, Air India resumed flights to Chicago and Newark, which were suspended last Thursday due to flight bans in Europe caused by a cloud of volcanic ash.
The ministry said also that Jet Airways (India) Ltd. has about 6,000 Europe-bound passengers with confirmed bookings who are stranded in India.
Jet has resumed four daily flights to Newark and Toronto flights via Athens.
Lufthansa AG has also started its flights to Munich and Austria from India Tuesday morning, the ministry said.
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