Air China to Use A330-300 on Delhi Route

Air China is to introduce its Airbus A330-300s on its flights between Beijing and Delhi during the Northern Winter schedules. The airline now has six of the type in service having first introduced the type in March 2010 and is due to add an additional two aircraft in the coming months.

The airline has been mainly using them on domestic and regional flights with the type currently scheduled to fly from Beijing to Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei. However, from March this year, the type was used to inaugurate a new connection to the German city of Dusseldorf.

Now, in the latest update of its GDS inventory, the A330-300 is scheduled to replace a Boeing 767-300ER on Air China’s four times weekly route between Beijing and Delhi, one of only two destinations it serves in India – it also offers a three times weekly link to Bangalore from Chengdu. The airline is the sole operator on this route although both China Eastern Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines have flown between the two cities up until recently. An estimated 57,000 O&D passengers flew on the route in the past year with Air China holding a 34 per cent share of this traffic, down from 37 per cent in the previous 12 month period.