Mumbai: With development work at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) expected to get done by next year, Mumbai is set to shoot back into prominence for national carrier Air India. The airline is said to be mulling over restarting a few of its discontinued routes from the city and adding new ones.
To start with, the airline will put the Dreamliner aircraft on the popular Mumbai-London route once operations at Terminal 2 start from February.
Air India, which had headquarters in Mumbai since its inception, had shifted to Delhi last year, citing lack of seamless connectivity at the airport and logistic problems, making the Indira Gandhi International airport the move’s biggest benefactor. The shift was protested by political parties, including Shiv Sena, which cautioned the airline management against the move.
Currently, the airline is without a direct connection to Durban, Tokyo, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Frankfurt, Nairobi and several other destinations. Many of its flights, especially on routes to Europe, the US and Africa, were discontinued over the past few years, when Air India started looking at making Delhi its major hub.
12/01/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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To start with, the airline will put the Dreamliner aircraft on the popular Mumbai-London route once operations at Terminal 2 start from February.
Air India, which had headquarters in Mumbai since its inception, had shifted to Delhi last year, citing lack of seamless connectivity at the airport and logistic problems, making the Indira Gandhi International airport the move’s biggest benefactor. The shift was protested by political parties, including Shiv Sena, which cautioned the airline management against the move.
Currently, the airline is without a direct connection to Durban, Tokyo, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Frankfurt, Nairobi and several other destinations. Many of its flights, especially on routes to Europe, the US and Africa, were discontinued over the past few years, when Air India started looking at making Delhi its major hub.
12/01/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
