Air India links the two silicon valleys of India and USNow you can fly straight from Sam Francisco to Bangalore
Harish Baliga
Jul. 7, 2007

It is great news. Air India finally did it. Air India has decided to introduce a new route later this year or early 2008 that will link San Francisco, hub for Silicon Valley, with Bangalore, India's Silicon Plateau.

Long suffering Air India loyalists flying between India and the US will soon have option of forgoing layovers in Europe and East Asia with the introduction of several direct, non-stop flights between the two countries over the next few months.

With the delivery of new Boeing 777 Long Range planes at the rate of one every two months starting July-August, Air India will go head to head against US carriers such as Continental, American, and Delta, which already have direct, non-stops between the two countries. The first of Air India's new 777s will fly non-stop between New York's JFK and New Delhi starting August, and the second will link JFK to Mumbai.

Air India's chairman and managing director V Thulasidas told correspondents in Seattle on Friday that in due course, Air India would also introduce direct flights between Washington DC and New Delhi; and Chicago and Hyderabad. The airline is also examining linking other Indian cities such as Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Kochi and appropriate US cities.

Asked why Air India should be introducing direct flights out of the New York area when US carriers already had a head start, Thulasidas said the New York hub was still the most lucrative one because of the heavy business travel.

Air India currently has two flights a day to the area (to JFK and Newark Liberty, both with European layovers), and direct, non-stop flights would thrive on this growing traffic.

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