Air India on Friday announced plans to launch 20 additional flights per week to London and Birmingham in the U.K. and San Francisco in the U.S.
These flights will be introduced in a phased manner between October and December, the airline said in a statement.
Air India's current schedule of 34 flights every week to the U.K. will now increase to 48 flights with Birmingham receiving an extra five flights per week, including three from Delhi and two from Amritsar. London will get nine additional weekly flights, of which five are from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad. As a result, seven Indian cities will now have non-stop Air India flights to the U.K.'s capital.