Originally Posted by
ashishp
AI's EWR flight is popular with the large Gujarati community.
Infact there is a domestic connector to AMD operated by A321 with the same flight number. Passengers can do customs and immigration formalities in AMD!
Second that - AI191/144 combo is very popular among the large Gujarati Community in Ahmedabad and around.. mainly Anand/Baroda - who prefer to opt for this flight for their US travels.
One correction - Connector's to Ahmedabad are also operated by B77W itself and not A321 - Usually at the time of booking EWR-AMD (via BOM), AI gives multiple options to that of either a through AI-191 to AMD or a break journey as AI-191 (EWR-BOM) + AI-331 (BOM-AMD) (which is A321) and if you are in no hurry to reach AMD - the later option does save some bucks too!
Even there are some throwaway fares for AMD-BOM-AMD on this B77W - as I had got a r/t for as low as 2800 INR.
Also, as mentioned by ashish - DEL-JFK originates and terminates in BOM with B77W throughout so that serves the purpose for flying BOM-JFK!