Air India to resume direct flights to Africa
Air India Ltd will soon resume direct services to certain countries in East Africa to grab a share of the steadily growing traffic between India and Africa on account of increasing trade, services and Medical Tourism. No Indian passenger carrier at present flies to Africa, which is fast emerging as a resource hub for Indian companies, IANS reported.
Also, the national passenger carrier is losing out passenger traffic to Middle East-based airlines like Dubai’s Emirates, Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, which till now are the only reliable air link between India and Africa. “There are plans to start services to Africa soon,” Ajit Singh, Minister for Civil Aviation, Government of India, said.
Source from Air India said plans were afoot to restart services to Kenya. “We are looking at operating Nairobi flights. The plans are being worked out. We used to operate the services nearly a decade ago from Mumbai. The new flights may be operated from New Delhi as well,” a senior official said.
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