Air India announces San Francisco-Delhi nonstop

Air India has officially announced that it will be launching new three weekly DEL-SFO nonstop flights effective 02DEC15 in response to heavy demand between Northern California and India especially from the I.T. sector. 

The schedule is as follows:

Days 3/5/7


AI 173 Dep DEL 0245 Arr SFO 0600
AI 174 Dep SFO 1000 Arr DEL 1535+1

All 3 weekly services shall be operated using a B777-200LR seating 8F + 35J + 195Y (total 238 seats). The O&D demand between India and SFO in 2014 round trip was as follows:

DEL 135,000
BOM 83,000
BLR 81,000
HYD 54,000
MAA 46,000
CCU 10,000
AMD 10,000
COK 10,000
TRV 4,000