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Air Canada announces Delhi- Toronto flights
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BY OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
16th August, 2005: Air Canada has announced that it will operate Delhi flights via Zurich from Toronto. The schedule which is expected to be come operational from October 30,2005 will be on a daily year-round basis.
With the introduction of the new service, the airlines plans to re-introduce the year-round service to Zurich. The company is also hopeful of improving its schedule to India with an increase to daily flights from its current three-times weekly non-stop service from Toronto. In addition, the company plans to pursue a code codeshare agreement with future Star Alliance member, Swiss International Air Lines. The agreement will be such that SWISS would sell seats on a codeshare basis on the Air Canada-operated flights via Zurich.
"By offering same-plane, one-stop service to India via Switzerland, Air
Canada customers will benefit from an expanded choice of year-round daily
flights to both Zurich and Delhi," said Ben Smith, Vice President, Network
Planning. "We look forward to pursuing talks on commercial cooperation with SWISS, our future Star Alliance partner, to serve the Europe-India market as well. Moreover, deployment of right-sized Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on the route will allow us to optimize use of passenger and cargo capacity, and reintroduce our premium Executive First product in the Zurich market on a year-round basis."
Air Canada will be operating using 212-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, which will offer a choice of Executive First and Hospitality service. The passengers on-board will have no problem with the language as the flight will have attendants speaking Hindi,Punjabi and German, as well as English and French. The customers can select from a choice of Western and Indian meals and the in-flight entertainment program will have a number of German-language selections, as well as Indian "Bollywood" recent releases on the Zurich-Delhi schedule.
The airlines has superbly timed its Delhi-Toronto flight to offer excellent connections to and from cities across Canada via its main hub in Toronto.
Flight Timings
Toronto Zurich Zurich Delhi
AC878 18:40 08:35 (+1) 10:10 22:20
Delhi Zurich Zurich Toronto
AC879 02:30 07:00 09:55 13:05
BY OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
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