Air India’s Melbourne route hangs on Dreamliners
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Air India said direct flights to Melbourne are ”a priority” as the embattled state-owned carrier prepares to take delivery of new planes it hopes can turn around its flagging fortunes.The long-promised, oft-delayed direct route between India and Australia has been mooted for years, but hampered by regulation lack of long-haul planes, Sydney Morning Herald reported.But with government approval and the first of 27 Dreamliner 787s set to be delivered to Air India by Boeing in October, launching a direct Delhi-Melbourne route is back under serious consideration, it said. ”Melbourne is a priority,” chief information officer Kamaljit Rattan told the paper. ”We have the green light
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