Flights from India to USA high on agenda for airlines

After Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher (subject to govt. approval) it’s now the turn of foreign airlines to tap the commercially viable India US route. Finnair, a Scandinavian airline which currently operates daily flights from Helsinki to Delhi & 6 from Mumbai (from Jun), is now planning to link Indian cities to US cities via its hub Helsinki.

"We presently get about one third of our revenue from India and in the long run one of our interests will be further expanding out operations on the India-US route," Sakari Romu, Vice President Commercial Division of Finnair said

"We will be looking to provide more services in the US and are looking at destinations on the west coast and cities like Houston and Dallas to which we can provide services in the future to cater to India-US traffic," he said, speaking on the sidelines of a yacht show in the city.

Finnair is also planning to make Mumbai its daily flight destination and would like to add flights from Chennai and Bangalore.

By the time Indian airports will be ready, India will have many new airlines connecting it to the world.
Thanks to liberalized civil aviation policy of India.