NEW DELHI: Come December and India-UK connectivity, under the air bubble formed between the two countries, will get a big boost. Vistara, which currently flies four times a week on Delhi-London Heathrow route, will first increase the frequency to five from November 21 and then make it a daily flight from December 1.
\nSpiceJet will begin its twice weekly Delhi-London and once a week Mumbai-Heathrow from December 4. And, Virgin Atlantic will start two new routes \u2014 Mumbai-Manchester from December 20 and Delhi-Manchester from January 6, 2021. These are in addition to the flights currently being operated by Air India, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic on India-UK route.
\nVistara\u2019s winter schedule timings for the Delhi-London flights change from October 25 with the flight leaving India at 1.45 pm, reaching Heathrow at 5.45 pm same day. From London, the flight in winter will take off 8.50 pm, reaching Delhi at 10.25 am next day. (All timings local).
\nVistara chief commercial officer Vinod Kannan said, \u201cThe increase in frequency demonstrates our success on the Delhi-London route, its importance in our network, and the steady demand for a full-service carrier from India.\u201d Vistara operated Delhi-London with its onboard WiFi-enabled Boeing 787 Dreamliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Come December and India-UK connectivity, under the air bubble formed between the two countries, will get a big boost. Vistara, which currently flies four times a week on Delhi-London Heathrow route, will first increase the frequency to five from November 21 and then make it a daily flight from December 1. SpiceJet will begin its twice weekly Delhi-London and once a week Mumbai-Heathrow from December 4. And, Virgin Atlantic will start two new routes \u2014 Mumbai-Manchester from December 20 and Delhi-Manchester from January 6, 2021. These are in addition to the flights currently being operated by Air India, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}