New Delhi, Oct 08: After a gap of four years, Air Canada on Tuesday announced resumption of its services with the launch of a non-stop daily service between Delhi and Toronto from October 18, which would provide convenient connections to the US with the Canadian city having scores of daily flights to New York, Washington, Chicago and other American cities. Announcing this here, Air Canada's general manager (India) Ratindra Jang told reporters that this 15-hour flight would do away with the inconvenience of five-hour stopovers and change of flights at European destinations and would "suit business travellers destined to North America the best".
Toronto has 12 direct flights a day to New York, ten each to Washington and Chicago as also to Dallas.
The Canadian carrier, a member of the Star Alliance, would operate a wide-bodied airbus a-340-300 on the Delhi-Toronto sector. The airline had stopped its services from India in 1999.
He said the timing of the launch of this daily service was aimed at attracting the Diwali traffic as also the ethnic travellers, primarily from Punjab. Bureau Report