Virgin Atlantic launches flights from India to Manchester

Virgin Atlantic on Thursday announced that it will be launching services from New Delhi and Mumbai to Manchester. Travellers can now fly three times a week from Mumbai to Manchester starting December and twice a week from Delhi beginning January.

These new services will go on sale on 20 October and will complement the airline’s existing services from Mumbai and Delhi to London’s Heathrow Airport.

With more than 16 million Indians living outside of the country and 500,000 living across the north of England, India has the world’s largest diaspora. These new services will open up over 130,000 seats between India and Manchester and aim to respond to the large, fast-growing demand to visit friends and relatives as well as capturing demand for business and leisure travel to the region as global economies gradually recover from the impact of the the novel coronavirus pandemic.