New Air India EWR-LHR-AMD flight starting Aug 15
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New Air India EWR-LHR-AMD flight starting Aug 15
few questions:
a) will this impact current EWR-BOM-AMD flight? (Probably not as they are actually two different flights (EWR-BOM and BOM-AMD sharing same flight number but different equipments)
b) slots for this flight for AI at LHR must have come from somewhere (seems like LHR-DEL frequency may be taking a hit but will LHR-BOM take a hit?)
c) current EWR-BOM-AMD flight (immigration/customs continue to be at final destination , AMD, correct?)
a) will this impact current EWR-BOM-AMD flight? (Probably not as they are actually two different flights (EWR-BOM and BOM-AMD sharing same flight number but different equipments)
b) slots for this flight for AI at LHR must have come from somewhere (seems like LHR-DEL frequency may be taking a hit but will LHR-BOM take a hit?)
c) current EWR-BOM-AMD flight (immigration/customs continue to be at final destination , AMD, correct?)
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interesting....i used to fly to nyc via lhr very frequently when ai operated this route & was quite disappointed when they shut it down....i wonder what the reason is to fly via lhr again????
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both london and newark have substaintial O/D traffic with AMD
(this particular crowd also travel a lot between LON and EWR and have strong preference for AI in spite of AI's reputation)
(some of the obvious benefits in Y for this crowd:
a) comparatively much better food
b) senior citizen treated with respect
c) while staff may not be perfect, at least it is one without typical racial prejudices
(this particular crowd also travel a lot between LON and EWR and have strong preference for AI in spite of AI's reputation)
(some of the obvious benefits in Y for this crowd:
a) comparatively much better food
b) senior citizen treated with respect
c) while staff may not be perfect, at least it is one without typical racial prejudices
Last edited by desi; Jun 8, 2016 at 2:42 pm
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It appears AI dropped the AMD-BOM tag.
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What terminal will this flight go to in LHR? I've been looking on Expertflyer for early January and it indicates this flights to/from AMD is at Terminal 4 and this flight to/from EWR is at Terminal 2. Which obviously doesn't make any sense, unless they're pushing it from one Terminal to the other with transit passengers on board (or making them transit from one terminal to the other).
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Not a big hussle!!