New Delhi: National carrier Air India is going full throttle ahead to expand its foreign operations. The national carrier has plans to launch new flights to all major cities across the US and Europe as well as West Asia , Gulf, East Asia and Australia in the Pacific region in the next one year and increase the frequency of its flights where demand is surging.
We are increasing our thrice-a-week flight to San Francisco to six days a week and for our direct connect Melbourne and Sydney are soon going to become five day-aweek schedule instead of the earlier three and four days schedule respectively,'' Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani told Mail Today.
With 21 new 787 Dreamliners in place and six more to arrive soon, Air India is venturing into more foreign markets.
There is also a compelling reason for Air India to expand its foreign market share to take on tough competition from Emirates, which has an almost equal market share in terms of flyers going abroad from Indian cities.
We are soon connecting to Madrid in December and may open up our new destination in the United States on East Coast in Washington DC in April 2017. And in between that, we are mulling over opening one more sector which could be either Copenhagen or Stockholm to cater to Indians who love Scandinavia and vice-versa. This operation may work out by January to February 2017,'' Lohani said.
20/09/16 Maneesh Pandey/Business Today
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We are increasing our thrice-a-week flight to San Francisco to six days a week and for our direct connect Melbourne and Sydney are soon going to become five day-aweek schedule instead of the earlier three and four days schedule respectively,'' Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani told Mail Today.
With 21 new 787 Dreamliners in place and six more to arrive soon, Air India is venturing into more foreign markets.
There is also a compelling reason for Air India to expand its foreign market share to take on tough competition from Emirates, which has an almost equal market share in terms of flyers going abroad from Indian cities.
We are soon connecting to Madrid in December and may open up our new destination in the United States on East Coast in Washington DC in April 2017. And in between that, we are mulling over opening one more sector which could be either Copenhagen or Stockholm to cater to Indians who love Scandinavia and vice-versa. This operation may work out by January to February 2017,'' Lohani said.
20/09/16 Maneesh Pandey/Business Today
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