American Airlines restarts India flights

AA wants to capitalize in on the growing demand for non-stop travel amidst the coronavirus pandemic

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American Airlines restarted flights to India this week, almost a decade after stopping them. AA wants to capitalize in on the growing demand for non-stop travel amidst the coronavirus pandemic, according to a official sources.

American Airlines is keen to expand its international network and India was “one of the biggest untapped markets”, according to Tom Lattig, Managing Director of EMEA sales quoted by Reuters. “A lot of customers really want to fly non-stop, particularly as we’ve come through the pandemic. We know there is huge demand for travel between India and the United States so there is an opportunity right now in the middle of the pandemic to come back,” Lattig said in an interview in New Delhi.

“There are more opportunities than we actually have aircraft for,” Lattig said. The US carrier is already flying 90 per cent of its pre-pandemic capacity at home and has even deployed widebody planes on some routes.”

— Tom Lattig, Managing Director of EMEA

American Airlines, which suspended services to India in 2012, started flying between New Delhi and New York on the weekend and will add flights between India’s tech city of Bengaluru and Seattle in March. If it succeeds with those two routes, it will add services to Mumbai, Lattig said. The expansion would also depend on the availability of aircraft as it awaits deliveries of wide-body aircraft from Boeing, he said. “There are more opportunities than we actually have aircraft for,” Lattig said. The US carrier is already flying 90 per cent of its pre-pandemic capacity at home and has even deployed widebody planes on some routes, Lattig said.

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