Increase in flights from India to UK

Wednesday 05th October 2022 09:37 EDT
 

Air India has announced that it would be able to provide over 5,000 additional seats every week to customers with five additional flights a week to Birmingham; nine to London; and six to San Francisco, US. The number of weekly flights from Air India to the UK would increase to 48 with these additions. In July this year, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston Preet Kaur Gill wrote to the chief executive officer of Birmingham Airport, Nick Barton and sought a review of regular and direct flights from Birmingham to Amritsar. Reacting to the news, Gill said, “I’m delighted to say that after organising joint letters from 12 MPs across the West Midlands to Air India and meeting with Birmingham Airport’s CEO, flights from Birmingham to India have increased from one a week to six. This is confirmed between October and December.”

The additional flights are part of Air India’s plan to increase connectivity to the US and the UK by operating 20 more flights to the two countries. These flights will be introduced in a phased manner from October to December this year.

These will include five additional flights a week to Birmingham, nine additional flights to London and six additional flights to San Francisco.

Under this, the airline will increase connectivity to Birmingham from Amritsar with two additional flights and the Delhi-Birmingham route will also be connected by three additional flights per week.

London will receive nine additional weekly flights, of which, five are from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad.

This will take Air India’s current schedule of 34 flights every week to the UK to 48 flights. Flights from India to the US will increase from 34 flights to 40 flights per week.


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