Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday voiced strong concerns over Air India Express' plan to reduce flights connecting multiple cities in Kerala. Tharoor criticized the move, stating that Air India "must stop treating Kerala as an afterthought."

Air India Express is the budget airline operated under the Tata-owned Air India Group.

“I have written to @airindia MD Campbell Wilson to express my deep concern over reports of large-scale cancellations of @airindiaexpress services from Kerala's airports in the forthcoming winter schedule. According to widely-circulated media accounts, a significant number of flights are being withdrawn from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur between late October and March,” Tharoor said in a post on X.

Tharoor, who repre

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