Spotlight on India ...
I flew American Airlines to California (as always). And while I was flipping through their inflight magazine (American Way), I read with extreme interest the CEO's letter to travellers.
The topic of the entire one page letter was American's recently launched service between Chicago's O'Hare and Delhi's Indira Gandhi ! It is the first time American is flying into India, although PanAm (now defunct) used to fly into Mumbai - In fact the flight number was PanAm 1 !
Apparently, the Indian employees at American helped the airline design the menu and choose the entertainment (Hindi movies !).
An interesting thing that I noticed was the fact that they have tied up with Air Sahara to offer connections within India. It is going to be interesting to see what Jet Air (which just purchased Sahara) is going to do about this arrangement, considering that they have a pre-existing code share/frequent flier miles sharing arrangement with Northwest !
The flight is going to be 7,500 miles and will fly over the North Pole or Russia, depending on the season. 14 hours to India. I think this might be the airline I fly to India, on my next trip ...
The topic of the entire one page letter was American's recently launched service between Chicago's O'Hare and Delhi's Indira Gandhi ! It is the first time American is flying into India, although PanAm (now defunct) used to fly into Mumbai - In fact the flight number was PanAm 1 !
Apparently, the Indian employees at American helped the airline design the menu and choose the entertainment (Hindi movies !).
An interesting thing that I noticed was the fact that they have tied up with Air Sahara to offer connections within India. It is going to be interesting to see what Jet Air (which just purchased Sahara) is going to do about this arrangement, considering that they have a pre-existing code share/frequent flier miles sharing arrangement with Northwest !
The flight is going to be 7,500 miles and will fly over the North Pole or Russia, depending on the season. 14 hours to India. I think this might be the airline I fly to India, on my next trip ...
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