Air India is launching the world’s longest non-stop commercial flight which will connect from IT hub of India and US – Bengaluru and San Franciso and having distance of 14000 km.
According to Times Of India, senior AI official said, “We are almost going to plan to have a nonstop either from two cities of India- Delhi or Bengaluru to San Francis on our Boeing 777-200 long range aircraft. On the same side as getting huge demand for travel between Ahmedabad and London, we are also going to plan a direct flight between those two cities to London
The flying time will be almost 17 to 18 hours from the longest nonstop commercial in the world. These ambitious flights will be among the first key decisions to be taken by AI’s new chairman Ashwani Lohani.
The declaration for the nonstop India-SFO flight could be made when Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Silicon Valley later this week. SFO has no direct flight to India despite a significant Indian population in Silicon Valley and the travel requirement of techies between the two cyber hubs.
Pertaintely, the longest nonstop commercial flight is operated by Australian airliner Qantas between Dallas Fort Worth in the US and Sydney which is a 13,730 km journey.