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Air India announces direct Delhi-Zurich flights from June 16

Air India announces direct Delhi-Zurich flights from June 16

Air India to start direct Delhi-Zurich flights from June 16, 2024. The flights will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Delhi-Zurich direct flight: Travel via Air India Boeing 787 from June 16 (Pic: X – @airindia)

New Delhi: Air India announced to start its direct flights from Delhi to Switzerland capital Zurich from June 16, 2024. The New Delhi-Zurich AI flight will operate four days a week.

Air India will deploy a Boeing 787 aircraft for New Delhi-Zurich route. The plane will have Economy and Business configuration of seats. The flights will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Currently, the Tata Group-owned airline operates 60 weekly flights to and from six cities in mainland Europe — Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, and Vienna.

Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson said that the airline is starting the Delhi-Zurich flight as over 200 companies from Switzerland have offices in India and there is a huge demand from the Indian diaspora.

“With over 250 Swiss companies operating in India, hundreds of Indian companies in Switzerland, and a growing Indian diaspora of nearly 18,000, these flights will cater to a strong demand for business and leisure travel in both directions,” Air India CEO said.

“Air India’s new service will provide travellers in Switzerland, as well as those in southern Germany and western Austria with a non-stop option to travel to Delhi, and onward to destinations across Air India’s growing route network, particularly in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia,” the release said.

Air India used to have services connecting Switzerland.

Air India starts A350 operations on Delhi-Dubai route

The Tata Group-owned carrier commenced services with its A350 aircraft on the international route by operating the first Delhi-Dubai flight on May 2, 2024. Air India plans to fly the partcular plane on more international routes in the future.

Currently, AI is operating a daily service between Delhi and Dubai with its A350 plane. In a release on Thursday, Air India said it “commenced flights on the Delhi-Dubai route using its A350-900 aircraft on Wednesday and currently, it is the only airline to deploy the plane between India and Dubai”.