Air Canada may fly back to India after getting long-range 777s

Air Canada's strategy to expand its international reach will take flight Saturday as the airline's largest and most efficient aircraft to date makes its maiden flight into Canada, company executives told shareholders yesterday.
The country's biggest carrier believes the 349-seat Boeing 777 will allow it to serve additional international markets.
"We are truly offering a competitive product that is equal to the best in the world and better than anything in North America,'' CEO Montie Brewer said at the Air Canada's first annual meeting since its public offering of stock last fall.
The two-engine plane replaces the smaller Airbus 340s that have four engines.
Brewer said Air Canada will wait until it receives the new long-range 777s in 2009-2010 before deciding whether to return to the competitive market in India.
"We're out of that market until then," he said. "India is a very important market and we'll probably be back at some point in time.''
28/03/07 Ross Marowits/CP/Winnipeg Sun, Canada

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2007