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Nimish · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: CO to BOM?

Aseem · Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ

Nimish · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: CO to BOM?

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

hmm lot of competition to NYC interesting .. is CO going to deploy the
B777-200 LR or B777-200 ER

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the_380 · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

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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vivekman · Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 1897 Location: BOM

Hope this competition brings down the fares on this sector further Smile

XBValk · Member Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 124 Location: NYC/COK

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?

the_380 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:50 am Post subject:

karatecatman · Guest

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

karatecatman · Guest

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

the_380 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject:

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

has to be BOM

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the_380 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject:

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
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Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

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.

Aseem · Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ

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 Rolling Eyes

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Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

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.

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

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

aarbee · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 328 Location: WAS/AMD