Virgin Atlantic and Finnair have both officially announced that they will be suspending their respective flights to Mumbai, India due to high losses that they incurred. Where as a majority of VS's traffic was O&D, a vast majority of AY's traffic was 6th freedom transit traffic bound for UK, CPH, ARN and OSL via their HEL hub. Both airlines will cease operations to/from BOM effective May 2009.
VS has too confirmed that it will be reducing capacity to JNB-Johannesbourg, South Africa from April from a daily B 744 to a daily A 346.
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With Kingfisher launching new BOM-LHR flights with an A 332 and Air India increasing capacity by flying a daily terminator BOM-LHR effective April using a B 773ER, someone on this key route was bound to call it quits. Unfortunately, it was VS!
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