Owing to the pilots' strike, day flights from Dubai to Mangalore have been stopped temporarily. The Mangalorean populace living in Dubai has expressed concerns with respect to availability of flights to Mangalore for the upcoming Ramadan and Eid holidays. The Dubai-Mumbai-Mangalore route is tiresome and time consuming and hence availability of the direct flight will always be their first priority.
Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Air India officials confirmed that the day flight (IX 383) from Dubai to Mangalore had been stopped for the time being because of the pilots' strike but the night flights will carry on operations as per schedule. The concerned day flight used to operate on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flights would be re-introduced as soon as the strike is called off, Air India officials said.
The strike had resulted in the stoppage of Mangalore-Kuwait Sunday flight as well. However, it will resume services from July 15, the officials said. The schedule for the concerned flight is on the Calicut-Mangalore-Kuwait route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
The number of direct Mangalore-Bahrain direct flights has also come down from 3 to 1. Only one flight in a week will operate on the Mangalore-Bahrain route till at least August end, the officials said. All other flights operating to Gulf from Mangalore whether to Abu Dhabi, Muscat etc will fly as per schedule.
There was a suggestion from the Mangalorean community to reschedule the Bahrain flight to some other day as opposed to Friday owing to inconvenience with respect to Friday prayers. The suggestion has been placed before higher authorities, Air India officials told Coastaldigest.com. However, they also said that it is rather difficult to reschedule the flight as then some other flight in some other sector would have to be deployed on Friday.
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