Saturday, April 18, 2015

Air Canada to resume Toronto to New Delhi flight after 10 years

Bengaluru: Ten years after scrapping flights operating between Toronto and New Delhi, Air Canada plans to resume the service starting from this winter, the chief of the airlines company told the visiting Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.The President and CEO of Air Canada, Calin Rovinescu, met Modi during his formal meeting with business leaders of Canada. Rovinescu informed Modi about the plan to restart the air service to New Delhi. Air Canada is one among the 27-member Star Alliance, an airline grouping that includes Air India.Air Canada was forced to stop its services to New Delhi in 2005 after the company incurred loss due to poor performance on the route.Rovinescu, on the side-lines of Modi’s announcement of visa-on-arrival facility for Canadian nationals, said “this will be very helpful”, both for travelers and the airlines, to expand their business in India, which is one of the growing aviation markets in the world.
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