India

Routes to Mumbai and Delhi will not go ahead as planned although the carrier has begun flights from Manchester to Pakistan.

The grounded Indian carrier could resume domestic and international routes by next summer.

The service to SFO will become the airline’s farthest route and the longest flight to and from India.

UK government funding makes airline's launch possible.

The pair of routes will add capacity to a market that has been unserved nonstop since Jet Airways suspended flights 18 months ago.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qantas resuming trans-Tasman flights; Air India expanding with a new Canadian service; and Air Arabia Abu Dhabi’s latest network addition.

Located 80 km south of Delhi, the new airport will handle at least 12 million passengers annually.

The airline will become the first Indian LCC to operate flights to UK when service begins in December.

The LCC has signed a codeshare deal with Oman Air, while service has begun to six destinations in India.

The low-cost airline has been granted the rights by Indian regulators to begin services to the US and UK.

Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across the Asia-Pacific region are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carriers in India have begun to reopen bookings for domestic flights after the government started to ease travel restrictions that have been in place for the past two months.

Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across the Asia-Pacific region are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across the Asia-Pacific region are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

How airlines around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

How airlines around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most of the new flights will commence on March 29.

Travel demand from India to Japan has more than doubled over the past decade.

Air France has moved to fill a gap in the market left by the collapse of its former commercial partner Jet Airways.

Virgin Atlantic is opening a new long-haul route from Manchester later this year, connecting the UK airport with the Indian capital.

The airline started flights to Jeddah from Delhi and Mumbai in 2019.

Delta Air Lines will serve Mumbai from New York John F Kennedy, rather than Atlanta, as it seeks to re-establish itself in the fast-growing Indian market. The planned launch comes despite the suspension of services by Jet Airways, which would have provided feeder traffic.

Jet Airways has temporarily suspended all its domestic and international flights after failing to find fresh funding.

The number of domestic departure seats in India is set to top 165 million this year, with such “unprecedented” growth driving the need for more than 2,300 new jets over the next two decades.

India plans to spend $60bn over the next 15 years to expand its airport infrastructure as growth forecasts indicate a trebling of passenger demand by 2037. The country’s government is also working on a relief package for struggling carriers.