Originally Posted by
CaliguyNYC
As far as consistency it does seem like AI is trying to be that (the plane arrivals just got delayed). From one of their announcements, it looked like all BOM-US nonstops would eventually be DL interiors as would BLR-SFO (which is BLR’s only US flight by AI). So I think once it stabilizes, there will be consistency.
The immediate reason for putting these planes on BOM-SFO and BLR-SFO is that each of these are 3xweekly routes so they can be served by one plane each (going back and forth). The first plane went to BLR-SFO, the second to BOM-SFO. If they had been able to put two ex-DL planes into service at the same time, they might have deployed them on a daily route.