New Delhi: Air India today launched a direct flight from Amritsar to Birmingham.
The flight will operate twice-a-week on Tuesday and Thursday with Boeing 787 aircraft.
According to an Air India official, this is the first direct
flight to be operated by any airline between Punjab and the UK.
The flight AI 117 will take off from Delhi at 11.20 am and
reach Amritsar at 12.25 pm. The flight will then depart from Amritsar at
1.55 pm and reach Birmingham at 5.15 pm local time, according to Air
India in a statement.
The return flight AI 118 will
take off from Birmingham at 6.45 pm and reach Amritsar the following day
at 7.45 am. For its onward journey to Delhi, the flight will leave from
Amritsar at 9.15 am and arrive in Delhi at 10.30 am, the statement
added.
The inaugural flight was flagged off from
Amritsar by Union minister Vijay Sampla, MPs Shwait Malik and Gurjeet
Singh Aujla and Director- Commercial, Air India Pankaj Srivastava. PTI
