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| Air India Boeing 777-200LR |
It is December and new flights are raining at
airports across India. Typically airlines commence new flight services around
the beginning of summer and winter season which start from last Sunday of March
and last Sunday of October respectively. But there is a whole lot of new
flights starting in December this time. Obviously it signals good times of
Indian aviation as it continues to grow at double-digit and became the fastest
growing major aviation market in the world. Although the growth is primarily
led by foreign carriers which are either starting new routes, increasing
frequencies on existing routes or upgrading the present capacity with change in
aircraft. But it is the national carrier Air India which had captured maximum
headlines with its launch of Delhi-San Francisco (DEL-SFO) non-stop
flight on Dec. 2;
