

Vistara of Tata Group - which is likely to acquire AI in a few months - is also eying nonstops to the east coast of North America. Air India is the only Indian carrier that currently flies connects several Indian metros to North American destinations like New York (JFK and Newark), Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto with direct flights. Delta used to fly to Mumbai till last March but is yet to resume those flights under the India-US air bubble.

It operates directs between Mumbai and Delhi and New York Delhi to San Francisco and Chicago and will start Bengaluru-San Francisco from May 6. Since the inception of our partnership with JetBlue, we have committed to offering customers more flights, more destinations and a better experience when traveling.” Among the big three US carriers, United is the only one currently flying -to India and adding routes here. American’s chief revenue officer Vasu Raja said: “Our global partnerships are designed to grow our network to benefit our customers, team members, and investors. With its Qatar Airways partnership and previously announced Seattle to Bengaluru, American will offer customers more ways to fly between the US and India… Flights to Delhi will connect customers to India’s capital three times per week, and then daily during the holiday peak from November 17 to January 3,” AA said in a statement. “Beginning October 31, American will launch nonstop service from New York (JFK) to New Delhi on a Boeing 777-200 to meet the strong local demand.

To be sure, these plans depend on how the pandemic situation pans out in the coming months. The airline had earlier announced Bengaluru-Seattle which was to be launched last winter and had to be deferred due to the pandemic by a year.

