A-I Starts Toronto Service

Air-India, the national carrier re-started their service to Toronto with three flights a week from Delhi to Birmingham and Toronto via Amritsar in May, after a gap of eight years. The state-of-the-art Boeing 777-222 ER aircraft is being used on the route with flights on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. With this reconnection, the state of Punjab will benefit from the direct and convenient services. The introduction of the Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto service will take the number of flights operated by Air-India to Britain from 18 to 21 per week. The national carrier also plans to add three more flights on the Delhi-Dhaka-Kolkata-London sector from June 18, 2005. This will result in an increase of flights to Britain amounting to a total of 24 flights a week.