Air India Launches New Route From Mumbai To Nairobi

Air India Launches Direct Non-Stop Service Between Chicago and Hyderabad

In a bid to bring India and the US closer, Air India has introduced the first-ever non-stop services between Hyderabad and Chicago.

This comes close on the heels of the launch of the non-stop Bengaluru-San Francisco service.

The flight AI 108 from Chicago to Hyderabad will operate on Wednesdays. The first flight left Chicago on time at 21:30 hrs (Local Time/LT) on 13 January and arrived at Hyderabad at 00:40 hrs(LT) on 15 January.

The return flight AI-107 from Hyderabad to Chicago, which operates once a week every Friday, will depart from Hyderabad at 12:50 hrs to arrive in Chicago at 1805 hrs(LT) on the same day.

The flight will operate with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft with a seating capacity of 238 seats including 8 First Class, 35 Business Class,195 Economy class configuration besides 4 Cockpit and 12 Cabin crew.

The total flight time on this route will be approx 16 hours 45 minutes from Hyderabad to Chicago and approx 15 hours 40 minutes from Chicago to Hyderabad.

Hyderabad being a gateway to South and Central India will connect Air India’s direct flight from Chicago with domestic connections to Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Bengaluru and Chennai.

The Air India flight AI-175 from Bengaluru will operate with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays departing from Bengaluru at 2.30 pm to arrive in San Francisco at 5 pm (local time) on the same day.

Currently, Air India operates non-stop flights from Delhi to New York, Newark, Washington DC, San Francisco and Chicago, from Mumbai to Newark and New York and our very recent addition from Bengaluru to San Francisco.


Source: LiveMint