Air India, the largest international airline operating out of India, is now starting to play its hand as it starts to get spare Boeing 777 aircraft in its fleet, when other flights will transition to the A350-900 aircraft (London effective September 2024 and New York JFK effective November 2024).
Air India Boeing 777-300ER Aircraft
Air India is adding three weekly flights between Delhi and Toronto Pearson, effective September 2024
Air India, which will transition two daily flights between Delhi and London Heathrow to the A350-900, effective September 2024, will now have a spare Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Effective September 1, 2024, it will assign this aircraft to operate three weekly flights between Delhi and Toronto Pearson. Here is the schedule for these additional flights between September and October 2024.
Air India will go double daily between Delhi and Toronto Pearson, effective November 2024.
Air India will also transition the Delhi—New York JFK flight to an A350-900, effective November 2024 and will have more spare Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Effective November 3, 2024, it will assign another spare aircraft released from the DEL-JFK rotation to go double-daily between Delhi and Toronto Pearson. Here is the schedule for these additional flights between November 2024 and March 2025.
Overall, the Delhi – Toronto Pearson and return schedule will look like this for the next seven months. The legacy Air India Boeing 777 aircraft will operate all the flights.
Flights are currently bookable on AirIndia.com and other channels.
From January 2, 2025, Air India will also operate the Delhi-Newark (EWR) route with the A350. This will free up more 777 aircraft, and it remains to be seen if Air India will use the spare aircraft to increase frequency on existing routes, add a new route, or send it for retrofit.
The India—Canada flights make sense, given the huge Indian diaspora in Canada. They prefer to migrate back to India (mostly Punjab) during the winter and then fly back as it becomes warmer to their Canadian homes.
The Delhi—Toronto O&D market grew from 482,000 passengers in 2019 to 763,000 passengers in 2023, which indicates a growth of 281,000 passengers over this period. Daily passengers each way increased from 660 (2019) to 1045 (2023).
Bottomline
Air India will add a second flight in September 2024 between Delhi – Toronto Pearson (3X Weekly) and go double daily on the route in November 2024 using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft that will be freed up from DEL-LHR-DEL and DEL-JFK-DEL over the coming months. Flights will be operated with the legacy Boeing 777-300ER and can be booked on airindia.com.
What do you make of Air India’s expansion on the Delhi – Toronto Pearson Route?
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Toronto is a very low yield market, so, it is a smart move by AI to use legacy non-refurb equipment on the route
Am waiting eagerly for Air India to operateToronto Pearson CSMT Mumbai flights. This may provide competition in the sector to Air Canada. There is quite a good number of folks traveling between these cities, and they desparately need some direct flight options other than AC.
Very poor service. Staff is not concerned about the customers. They are operating an oldest machine which is all junk.
If Air India is using the old aircraft which belong to the junk yard this will not be a flight to book , I flew Air India last year from Toronto to Delhi and that was my wort flying experience
What was your second worst flying experience ?
Hope the service level improves & inside craft need to be upgraded. very convenient
flight but service level and inside craft need tobe upgraded at the earliest.
Instead of Adding more to Delhi AI should have considered atleast 2 or 3 flights a week to Chennai / Bangalore / Kochi .
@Jacob, ever wondered if the plane could fly that far, or if there are enough passengers for these flights you suggest?
When Edmonton – New Delhi route is going to start as a Edmonton space is reserved by Air India