Air India pushes back Australia plans
thehindubusinessline.com
New Delhi - Air India has pushed back plans of launching a flight to Australia and instead plans to utilise the Airbus A-330 aircraft to operate flights to Seoul and Osaka, senior airline officials said.
The airline, which is to induct two Airbus A-330 aircraft, plans to use them to not only connect South Korea and Japan but also to operate flights between Chennai and Singapore.
“The flights to Melbourne and Johannesburg have been pushed back in the medium term. These two cities are on the radar of the airline, but for now we have decided to consolidate operations by operating to Seoul and Osaka through Hong Kong with the A-330 aircraft,” a senior airline official told Business Line.
Currently, the airline operates to Seoul and Osaka with an Airbus A-310 aircraft.
Meanwhile, the airline is also planning to utilise the first Canadian Regional Jet aircraft to operate flights on the Delhi-Raipur-Vizag-Chennai sector. The airline plans to introduce a daily return flight on the Kolkata-Bangalore-Hyderabad and Chennai-Kochi-Chennai sector apart from increasing the frequency by operating a fifth daily flight between Delhi and Bangalore and a fourth daily flight between Delhi and Hyderabad.
It plans to operate three times a week between Chennai-Goa and Kuwait.
