India, March 22 -- Air India has cancelled around 2,500 flights to West Asia over the past three weeks and is currently operating only about 30% of its normal schedule in the region due to the ongoing Iran conflict, chief executive officer Campbell Wilson said in an internal communication to employees on Friday.

"The world, our region and our industry continue to contend with the impact of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.the impact on Air India Group is significant given the usual scale of our operations to, and through, the Middle East," Wilson said in the note.

"In the three weeks since the conflict started we have had to cancel around 2,500 flights to the region. As of today, we can operate only around 30% of our normal Middl...