Air India Express to fly 50 extra services to Gulf Nedumbassery: To overcome the crisis caused by the striking pilots, Air India Express will run 50 extra services to Gulf and it began moves to resume the cancelled services. The extra services would be from August 8 to September 15. Air India decided on this as the passengers were facing difficulties due to increased fares. The services would be from Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai and Chennai.