San Francisco Next Hot Target For Indian Carriers

With Indian carriers battling for their share of leisure and business travellers bound for California this summer, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is keen to welcome its new clients from India.
To add some gleam to this new found gold rush, the City of San Francisco and India's IT capital Bangalore are also preparing for a 'sister city' relationship soon, Kandace Bender, SFO's deputy airport director said.
'Out of California's 315,000-plus Asian Indians, over half live in its northern region, with the greatest concentration in the vicinity of Silicon Valley that is located within a 30-minute drive from SFO,' Bender told IANS.
In addition, some 25,000 Asian Indians live in the nearby Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, all within a 90-minute drive from the airport, as per statistics available with US agencies.
To tap this potential, the state-run carrier Air India, Vijay Mallya-controlled Kingfisher Airlines, Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways and a start-up US airline Sapphire Airways are keen to introduce flights to and from San Francisco.
03/02/08 NEWSPost India

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