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.

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.

President Donald Trump’s militarized crime crackdown in Washington, DC, is a clarifying political moment. It’s again exposed Democrats’ struggles to combat Trump’s hardline law-and-order rhetoric and splits within their party that the president exploited to win two elections.

U.S. President Trump's recent crackdown on crime and homelessness in Washington, D.C., while signaling that other major U.S. cities with Democratic leadership could be next, has caused fear and uncertainty nationwide.