Air India plans to launch a four times weekly Amritsar-New Delhi-Birmingham service on 1 August.
It will deploy Boeing 787-8 aircraft on the route, says the carrier.
Innovata schedules show that Air India will be the sole operator on the New Delhi-Birmingham route.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
While a slower recovery and strong competition has hit Lufthansa Group’s passenger operations on Asia-Pacific routes since the pandemic, the carrier is shifting more of its freighter capacity to tap strong cargo demand from the region.
Indonesian carrier TransNusa Airlines has operated the longest ARJ21 commercial flight, deploying the Comac regional jet on flights between Manado and Guangzhou.
Emirates has signed two separate memorandums of understanding with Vietnamese operators Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet, as it looks to grow its presence in the Southeast Asian nation.
