Air India cancels US link

Air India will not relaunch its scheduled service to Washington Dulles which had been temporarily suspended due to the volcanic ash cloud.

It will, however, increase its service to London Heathrow to a 10x weekly service, up from 7x weekly with widebody B777 aircraft. Over 600,000 O+D pax flew the sector between Feb 09-10, Air India will hope to increase its 18% market share in a market where it competes with BA and Virgin.