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Nimish Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: CO to BOM? |
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Reuters.com
Quote: | Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL.N: Quote, Profile , Research), the No. 4 U.S. carrier, said on Wednesday it would launch daily non-stop flights between financial hub Mumbai and New York/Newark from Oct. 31, subject to government approvals.
The Houston-based carrier has operated a New Delhi-New York non-stop service since 2005.
"We are excited about extending our Indian route network to Mumbai," Jim Summerford, Continental's vice president for Europe, Middle East and India, said in a statement.
The Mumbai-New York/Newark flights will be operated with a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, it said. |
Interesting times ahead - from 0 non-stops to 3 non-stops on BOM-NYC in a year!
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: CO to BOM? |
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Nimish wrote: | Interesting times ahead - from 0 non-stops to 3 non-stops on BOM-NYC in a year! |
Which is the third one besides CO and DL? Is it AI!! _________________ [url=http://openflights.org/user/aseemsjohri]
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Nimish Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: CO to BOM? |
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Aseem wrote: | Which is the third one besides CO and DL? Is it AI!! |
yes - that's supposed to be their first route launching this summer! |
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avbuff Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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hmm lot of competition to NYC interesting .. is CO going to deploy the
B777-200 LR or B777-200 ER |
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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avbuff wrote: | hmm lot of competition to NYC interesting .. is CO going to deploy the
B777-200 LR or B777-200 ER |
has to be ER as none if any LRs are to be delivered to CO any time soon. Source http://www.seattle-deliveries.com/777deliveries600-799.htm _________________ [url=http://openflights.org/user/aseemsjohri]
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the_380 Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Im guessing AI will be the first airline to launch India-USA flights using the -200LR series a/c. Nice to see the non-stops between India and USA growing. _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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vivekman Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hope this competition brings down the fares on this sector further
the_380 wrote: | Im guessing AI will be the first airline to launch India-USA flights using the -200LR series a/c. Nice to see the non-stops between India and USA growing. |
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XBValk Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if CO will offer any connections, I don’t think they'll tie up with 9w seeing as CO will be going up against them on EWR-BOM?
@ the_380
Isn't AI 772LR stated for BOM-JFK? |
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the_380 Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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XBValk wrote: |
@ the_380
Isn't AI 772LR stated for BOM-JFK? |
Is it JFK or EWR im not too sure _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Air India is India-JFK.
Details about the flight timings are in the thread Air India News-Part 2
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Details of Continental inflight service ... and closely monitored by Air India!!!!!:
Flight on: October 30.
From Newark Liberty International Airport to Sahar and return with connections at Continental’s New York hub to more than 230 other cities throughout the US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mumbai will be the 30th city in Continental’s trans- Atlantic route network. Flying time:
approximately 14 hours and 50 minutes eastbound, and 16 hours and 15 minutes westbound.
Inflight:
A Bollywood movie channel is featured on the inflight entertainment system with different programming provided in each direction for all customers to access on their individual seat monitors.
Traditional Indian music is incorporated in the world music audio channel. Instructional videos, including the safety and arrival video and pre-recorded announcements, also available in Hindi.
Inflight meals, which include Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian choices, have been designed by Indian chefs based in the US and in India.
The new flights will feature Continental’s BusinessFirst service, which was also voted Best Trans- atlantic Business Class among US airlines in Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s Business Travel Awards 2006.
This premium-class cabin features specially-engineered electronic sleeperseats in a 2-2-2 configuration, with a 55-inch seat pitch and adjustable ‘‘winged’’ headrests.
All BusinessFirst seats feature a laptop computer power outlet, a satellite telephone, a flexible-neck reading light.
Flights to Mumbai will feature Continental’s new Audio/Video on Demand in both the BusinessFirst and Economy cabins. The entertainment systems on these aircraft allow customers to choose from more than 250 movies, 300 short-subject programmes and 1,500 music tracks. In addition, this new entertainment system has 25 video games and the interactive Berlitz World Traveler foreign language programme.
Economy class on the Continental 777 is in a 3-3-3 seating configuration. The aircraft on the Mumbai route also have AC power outlets available to every passenger, with no need for an adapter in order to operate a PC or other approved device.
Courtesy: Continental |
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karatecatman Guest
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1946815,0002.htm
Fly for less to the Big Apple, much less in a while
Lalatendu Mishra
Non-stop
Delta
Now to join the bandwagon are
Continental in October
Continental has announced an introductory fare of Rs 42,000 for a round trip to New York. This will be cheaper than Delta’s economy fare of Rs 52,000. For its business class, Continental will charge Rs 1.68 lakh for a round trip.
Air India --- Nonstop and in June
Jet Airways --- to America and in June with a stop-over in Brussels.
Kingfisher again nonstop to America and in early 2008 |
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the_380 Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Jet Airways --- to America and in June with a stop-over in Brussels. |
From where? _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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avbuff Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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has to be BOM |
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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avbuff wrote: | has to be BOM |
DEL-BRU won't make sense if diamond traders is what they are aiming at.
is Kingfisher close to 5yrs of operations?
And are we expecting BLR-SFO?
What equipment are they planning to use on that route considering their A345 are not arriving that soon?
rgds
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selecta Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Aseem wrote: | avbuff wrote: | has to be BOM |
DEL-BRU won't make sense if diamond traders is what they are aiming at.
is Kingfisher close to 5yrs of operations?
And are we expecting BLR-SFO?
What equipment are they planning to use on that route considering their A345 are not arriving that soon?
rgds
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according to the press release on kingfisher's website, the delivery date is 08 _________________
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the_380 Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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VJM was quite interested to have atleast 1 non stop from BLR ... and had hinted once during a interview about BOM-NYC and BLR-SFO _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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Jaysit Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Has anyone seen updated trade or IATA or GOI predictions for traffic growth on the India-US sector?
This sector will see a massive increase in capacity with the new CO flight, AI's nonstop 777 to NYC (I'm assuming that the daily nonstop 777 will be in addition to AI's 2 daily 744s to the NY area), and Jet's planned daily NY and SFO via PVG flights. |
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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How many flight are there currently and in near future between India and US that do not require change of aircraft.
AI
BOM/DEL-JFK X 2
BOM/DEL-EWR
BOM/DEL-ORD
BOM/DEL-LAX
CO
EWR-DEL
EWR-BOM
AA
ORD-DEL
DL
JFK-BOM
NW
JFK-AMS-BOM
9W
BOM-BRU-JFK/EWR
So, that is 11 flights a day and growing
rgds
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Karan69 Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Aseem wrote: |
NW
JFK-AMS-BOM
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Mate not to be nitpicking but NWs flight originates in MSP.
Jfk is operated by KLM and recently NW started operations with a 757
Karan |
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Karan69 wrote: | Aseem wrote: |
NW
JFK-AMS-BOM
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Mate not to be nitpicking but NWs flight originates in MSP.
Jfk is operated by KLM and recently NW started operations with a 757
Karan |
thanks man!! I wasn't sure myself and was expecting correction from somebody.
rgds
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avbuff Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Karan69 wrote: | Aseem wrote: |
NW
JFK-AMS-BOM
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Mate not to be nitpicking but NWs flight originates in MSP.
Jfk is operated by KLM and recently NW started operations with a 757
Karan |
now the NW flghts originate in SEA if im not mistaken please correct me if iam wrong NW does
SEA - AMS - BOM - SEA - AMS |
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Jaysit Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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I think the flight originates from SEA only because aircraft availability and logistics demand it does. In effect, given the AMS hub, the flight can originate from pretty much any of NW's hubs in the US. Over the years, the flight has originated from JFK, IAD, MSP, DTW among others. |
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avbuff Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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yes over the past 10 yrs IIRC it originated from MSP
NW was supposed to start this current flight NW34/33 to BLR with an A330-300 but ended up at BOM with an A330-200 |
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aarbee Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:51 am Post subject: |
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avbuff wrote: |
now the NW flghts originate in SEA if im not mistaken please correct me if iam wrong NW does
SEA - AMS - BOM - SEA - AMS |
Yes it does originate from SEA currently.
--edited by Nimish to remove excessive quoting-- |
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