A-I daily direct flight to Chicago from March 29

Hyderabad: Air-India is launching direct daily flights from Hyderabad to Chicago (US) via Frankfurt from March 29.
The national carrier also plans to introduce non-stop flights from Hyderabad to Frankfurt.
Passengers flying from Hyderabad will now have an option to travel via Mumbai to Chicago and via Delhi to New York for the same fare. Besides from Hyderabad, Air India also launched direct flights to Chicago from Bangalore and Chennai.
``Frankfurt has a distinctive advantage of providing easy connectivity to many cities. For us, it is a hub more strategic than London.
We are expecting at least 10 per cent increase in traffic due to this restructuring,’’ said P Ashok Kumar, deputy general manager (commercial), Air India.
To make introduction of nonstop flights from Hyderabad to Frankfurt possible, the occupany levels of each flight taking off from Hyderabad to Chicago and London via Mumbai and Delhi have to touch 150 to 200 passengers.
“Introduction of direct flights reduces transit time and costs significantly. When volumes increase, we will launch non-stop flights and fares will be much lower compared to the present,’’ explained.
21/03/09 ExpressBuzz

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