NEW DELHI: National carrier Air India will launch new flight connecting the seas to the hills. The new flight will connect Dehradun to Mumbai, Varanasi and Kolkata and will be launched on the World Tourism Day on September 27. The airline will start flights on many other routes, including international ones, as well. It will start a daily flight between Mumbai-Patna-Amritsar.
Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Air India will start a direct flight from Mumbai to Kenya’s capital Nairobi. At present, Air India has a codeshare partnership with Kenyan Airways, which operates a daily service between Mumbai and Nairobi.
“I am delighted to announce that on the occasion of World Tourism Day on 27th Sept 2019, @airindiain will begin a direct Mumbai-Nairobi flight (4 days a week) to improve air connectivity between India & Kenya,” Puri tweeted.
Air India will also start flying thrice a week to Toronto from Delhi from September 27. In addition, it is reportedly mulling to launch flight services to Indonesian tourist hub Bali from the national capital as well as to Hong Kong from Mumbai during the winter schedule which starts from the last Saturday of October.