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Blog Entry# 6182320
Posted: Sep 07 (23:27)
76 Responses
Last Response: Sep 11 (00:45)
76 Responses
Last Response: Sep 11 (00:45)
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Tbh like it or not having an AI flight is of no use to regular international flyers coz the service is average and the price is exorbitant. BA or AA would have been useful but really, how many people from Kolkata regularly travel to those cities and vice versa and would that fill a wide body jetliner (330/777)? I'm sure if it was feasible, BA or AA would have run it. They stopped due to lack of passengers. What fuels passengers is if there are lots of MNC and Big Tech which Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Hyderabad have but Kolkata hardly has any.
Kolkata - London sector has adequate passenger traffic to sustain a direct flight. Even flight officials accepted the same when the Kolkata - London flight was withdrawn in 2022. More than the passenger traffic, it's actually the cargo traffic that brings profit for these international flights and Kolkata may lag in that sector. Moreover, along with the CUU-LHR flight, AI also cancelled BLR-LHR flight in 2022 citing lack of fleets. Recently in August, they reintroduced the BLR flight and as per news, the CCU-LHR flight is likely to be reintroduced by dec.
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After addition of A350 on DEL-LHR route. A B777 and B787 are now available. In which I guess, the B787 is added on BLR-LGW route. Let's hope that AI should add atleast at B787 flight from LHR to CCU.
ASR has different reality. Most of the Punjabi population are going to UK or Canada and so ASR is the case that it is a immigrant capital. If demand is high then why is BA or AA not running? BA stopped due to lack of demand I believe. AI might resume but AI is of no use to regular middle class travellers, too costly, its more costly than Emirates and service doesn't even compare to Emirates. I'd rather take CCU-Abu Dhabi-LHR Emirates than direct CCU-LHR AI. (I actually use the JFK-AUD-CCU a lot, as I'm a regular in JFK-CCU route ). Also CCU's international terminal is ancient. They gotta ramp it up. It's nowhere compared to BLR or DEL or BOM
The problem with Kolkata is low corporate traffic, leading to low business class travel. You cannot sustain long haul flights without business class being substantially occupied.
That is the reason Kolkata has fallen behind.
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