KOLKATA: British Airways suspended its direct service to London from here on Sunday, with the last flight taking off at around 5 a.m., even as national carrier Air India resumed operations on the route the same day.
British Airways, which operated three direct fights a week from the city to Heathrow Airport in London, decided to suspend operations as it found the route unprofitable.
Air India's service on the Kolkata-London sector had been suspended last October.
The last British Airways flight - a Boeing 777 with a seat capacity of 272 passengers - touched down here in the wee hours Sunday. The return flight left the city for London after about four hours.
"The flight was not full. There were a lot of vacant seats," said Martina, who flew in from London.
"It will be very difficult for us now to come to Kolkata," said S.K. Samanta, a London resident who flew into the city along with his wife and their two-year-old child.
"Taking hopping flights with a baby is always difficult on such a long route। We will now have to take connecting flights from Mumbai or Delhi both ways," said Samanta.
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