Grappling with the headwinds due to the West Asia crisis, Air India has made substantial cuts to its international flight schedule for the June-August period, as the surging international jet fuel prices have put the Tata group airline’s international operations under severe stress. Flight frequencies on numerous routes have been reduced, while a few routes have been suspended altogether. According to information provided by the airline and flight schedules filed by it, about 250 weekly international flights — outbound and inbound — have been cut. This reduction is on top of flights that have been cut in recent weeks amid the West Asia war. The routes that have been temporarily suspended include Delhi -Chicago, Delhi-Newark, Mumbai -New York, Delhi-Shanghai, Chennai -Singapore, Delhi-Male, and Mumbai-Dhaka. Frequencies on most other international routes have been reduced in varying degrees.…