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Air India extends state-of-the-art B777 to all long haul destinations |
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Air India extends state-of-the-art B777 to all long haul destinations13-Oct-2009 |
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With more than half of the fleet now comprising new aircraft, it has given the airline an opportunity to rework its Winter Schedule in such a manner as to provide passengers with a product that matches the best in the industry, both on international and domestic sectors. Of the 111 new aircraft on order, Air India has received and inducted 64 aircraft so far. This includes nine B777-300ER, eight B777-200LR, 15 each of A321 and A319 aircraft, besides 17 B737-800 aircraft for Air India Express. Effective October 25, 2009, Air India will deploy the B777 to all its seven West-bound destinations and one to Tokyo. Presently, the comfort and luxury of the state-of-the-art B777s is available on Air India flights to New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and London. The same high quality product will be now be extended to Newark, Paris, Toronto and Tokyo, thus ensuring a consistent and superior product on long haul destinations in the USA, Europe, Canada and to Tokyo. Winter Schedule 2009 * The existing Amritsar-London-Toronto flight will now operate with a B777-300ER, four days a week out of Amritsar. On the remaining three days, the flight will originate from Delhi, thus giving Delhi passengers a direct connection to London-Toronto * The existing thrice weekly flight to Paris will now be operated with B777-200LR instead of A330. * Similarly, the product upgrade has also been extended to the four weekly flights to Tokyo, with the deployment of a B777-200LR instead of A330. * Besides these, additional flights on the Mumbai-Riyadh and Delhi-Riyadh routes will take the total frequencies from India-Riyadh to 11 per week from the existing nine. All the 11 flights will be operated with B777-200ER aircraft instead of B747-400. * A daily non-stop A319 flight will be introduced between Chennai and Muscat. * The Air India Express flight on the Kozhikode-Muscat-Kozhikode route will now become a daily flight as against the four times a week. Similarly, the Kozhikode-Doha-Bahrain flight will become a daily flight. Kochi-Muscat-Kochi flight will operate five times a week instead of twice. * Air India Express will see an increase in capacity with the introduction of all-economy A320 aircraft on its services to Dubai, Sharjah, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo, from various cities in India.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 13-Sep-09 In-depth analysis of the Indian airline and airport sectors, including latest traffic and financial reports and outlooks, is available each month in the Monthly Essential India. http://centreforaviation.com/minisites/mei/
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