Air India adds more flights

LABOUR MP and the shadow secretary of state for international development, Preet Kaur Gill, welcomed Air India’s plan to increase flights between Birmingham and India from one a week to six.

Reacting to the Indian carrier’s decision to add more weekly flights to the UK, the MP for Birmingham Edgbaston said, “I’m delighted to say that after organising joint letters from 12 MPs across the West Midlands to Air India and meeting with Birmingham Airport’s CEO, flights from Birmingham to India have increased from one a week to six. This is confirmed between October and December.”

Air India said in a statement last Friday (30) that it would be able to offer more than 5,000 additional seats every week to customers with five additional flights a week to Birmingham; nine to London; and six to San Francisco, US.

With these additions, Air India’s weekly flights to the UK were set to go up to 48. “A brand-new flight route to Delhi will see three flights travel from Birmingham,” Gill said.