Air India Brings National Capital Closer to East Asian Destinations
The company is planning on reducing airfares from India to Middle East
Air India is planning on restarting flights between the national capital and East Asian destinations like Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
“We have decided to reactivate flight services to these destinations in east Asia from June 24. Dates have been decided and we have informed our ticketing agents about the same,“ a senior Air India official told IANS.
According to the official, services to Shanghai will start from June 24 followed by Tokyo from June 26 and Hong Kong from July 6.
Currently, the airline is operating only 38 of its original 45 services. Among the seven axed international destinations are Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul and Toronto.
The new schedule will be operated with the Airbus family of aircraft which will replace the Boeing 777s that were deployed in the region. The strike has grounded the bulk of B-777s-200 and B-777-400 aircraft.
"We will operate to Hong Kong with the Airbus A-319, to Tokyo with the A-330. Shanghai too will be served by Airbus aircraft," the official said.
The airline also announced that it will reduce fares by about 10% to Bahrain to shore-up travel to and from the Middle East in the holiday season.
"We hope that the new reduced fares will help us shore up our market share in the region as we cater to a huge segment of workers travelling between India and the Middle East. This is also the peak season when most of the Indians travel back from the Middle East on holidays."
Also, Air India expects to hire nearly 100 pilots who will pool in with 90 trainee pilots to meet the shortfall in the manpower.
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