Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani announced the new route as part of the carrier's expansion plans.
Air India is to launch flights to Tel Aviv, the carrier's chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani has announced. Speaking about the expansion of Air India's operations at the unveiling of the airline's new mobile application Lohani said, "We are going to connect Washington, Africa, Tel Aviv and many others."
Lohani's announcement comes as no surprise. Earlier this year he met with Ministry of Tourism director general Avi Halevy to discuss direct flight to Israel by Air India.
The new route would be more competition for El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL) which operates weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Mumbai. The possibility of the new route comes hard on the heels that Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific will be operating flights between Tel Aviv and Hong Kong starting in March 2017.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on October 27, 2016
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