Air India to start flight services to New York from Mumbai

Air India is all set to start flight services to New York from Mumbai. The national carrier also has plans to resume services to Frankfurt, which it discontinued in 2010, from winters this year.

At present, Air India flies to New York, Washington and San Francisco from New Delhi; Chicago from Hyderabad through New Delhi and to Newark from Mumbai. It also flies directly to destinations such as Stockholm, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, London, Rome, Birmingham and Milan.

Air India is planning to spread its wings further in the US and Europe from the coming winters. As part of this, the airline will launch flight services for the first time to New York from Mumbai and restart operations to Frankfurt in Germany. The new flights are expected to be operational by October.

Air India is the only domestic carrier which flies to destinations in the US directly. The Mumbai-Frankfurt flight will run four-times-a-week and will be operated by the its flagship jetliner Boeing 787-800. The Mumbai- New York service will be three-times per week, operated by Boeing 777-300ER.

Following the launch of the two new services, Air India will be offering a total of 36 weekly flights to the US cities from New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.