Passengers looking to fly directly from Delhi, India to the U.S. Capitol will want to book a flight with an airline aside from Air India. Air India announced Aug. 11, 2025 that it would be suspending direct flights to Washington DC.

The Star Alliance carrier will end flights between Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) and IAD on Sept. 1, Air India said Monday. Air India attributed the move to a "planned shortfall" in available long-haul aircraft due to an interior retrofit program and the additional flight time needed to avoid the closure of Pakistani airspace to Indian airlines that began in May.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has cautioned Air India against lapses in adhering to flight time limits, after finding two international services exceeding the permitted operational hours.

With Air India suspending its services between Delhi and Washington DC, passengers who had already booked tickets for travel after September 1, 2025, are agitated. The retrofitting of the airline’s 26 Boeing 787-8s was scheduled early last year under Vihaan.

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Five MPs, including KC Venugopal of the Congress, wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over the incident of a Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi flight they were travelling in being diverted to Chennai and demanded action on alleged "breach of privilege".