AI wants to follow Jet to Frisco

Mumbai: It is a matter of give and take. India gave its go ahead to Great Wall Airlines and China reciprocated with permissions to Jet Airways to transit through Shanghai to the United States.
What the diplomatic breakthrough has meant for Jet is that it can now crucially connect India to San Francisco before its Indian competitors, Air India and Kingfisher Airlines do. The competition is not taking it lying down. Sources in Air India indicated to DNA Money that it is examining possibilities to fly to San Francisco.
Currently the airline flies to Los Angeles in the west coast of US but that is through Frankfurt and not an eastern route.
And of course there is the much talked about plans of Kingfisher Airlines to connect Bangalore and Mumbai with San Francisco.
Saroj Dutta, executive director, Jet Airways, refused to indicate a possible date for the start of its daily operations but said that Jet would be taking delivery of two long haul aircraft in February, which would be used for servicing the route. San Francisco is the destination for the tens of thousands of Indian techies who live in the Silicon Valley. It is also often used as a gateway by Indian residents of the central and western United States.
15/01/08 Nirmal John/DNA Money/Sify

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