Indo-US air route hotting up

New Delhi: For international airlines in India, it’s time to go looking for America. Come August, and there’ll be two new options to fly to America. While Jet Airways will inaugurate its transatlantic services on August 5, 2007 with daily flights between New York and Mumbai, Air-India is geared up to start non-stop flights to New York from Mumbai from August 1. After that, Continental Airlines plans to launch a non-stop flight between Mumbai and New York in October 2007, while Kingfisher has announced that it will fly to the US by early next year.
The hotting up of the US-India route is obviously good news for both business and leisure travelers.
For some of the existing players, it’s time to add value through non-stop flights.
Continental already operates daily, non-stop flights between Delhi and its New York hub, Newark Liberty International Airport, since 2005. And the daily, non-stop flights between Mumbai and New York Liberty will start on October 2. American Airlines, too, runs non-stop Delhi-Chicago-Delhi flights. While Jet is not looking at non-stop transatlantic flights right away, the airlines is hoping to offer international travellers arriving in India the advantage of its large domestic network.
15/07/07 Dheeraj Tiwari & Ishani Duttagupta/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Jul 2007