Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Indian carriers to spread wings abroad, AI to add US, Oz nonstops

New Delhi: Indian globetrotters will soon have improved international connectivity with Indian carriers drawing up big plans for both long and medium haul flights.

While Air India is adding non-stops to US and Australia, others like SpiceJet, IndiGo are going to expand their foreign network. Air Asia India will complete five years this May and it plans to fly to southeast Asia.

Air India is going to add non-stop flights to the US and Australia, with which the airline is going to get some of its grounded aircraft - including 3 Dreamliners and one Boeing 777 - back in action.

AI is going to add three direct flights a week to either Chicago, San Francisco or New York. And it will add three directs a week to Australia, said AI director (finance) Vinod Hejmadi.

AI is the only airline with direct flights to Australia and the only Indian Indian carrier with directs to the US.

Air India currently has 36 non-stops a week between India and US — a daily each on Delhi-New York JFK, Delhi-Chicago and Mumbai-Newark. Apart from these, it has nine weekly flights on Delhi-SFO, and thrice each, weekly on Delhi-Washington and Mumbai-New York routes. The addition of nonstops is most likely to be on Delhi-Chicago routes.

SpiceJet chairman Ajay Singh said on the sidelines of a CAPA summit in Delhi on Tuesday the low cost carrier will induct 20 Boeing 737 Max this calendar year, which will be deployed on more distant routes, given the longer range of this aircraft.

Among the places being considered are China, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and former Russian republics.
12/02/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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