Taken off from the intercontinental airport Milan Malpensa the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Air IndiaIndia’s leading airline and member of Star Alliance, marking the resumption of non-stop flights between Milan and Delhi.

The maiden flight AI138 departed yesterday at 8pm (local time) with 249 passengers on board after a celebratory event at Terminal 1 and landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport this morning at 8am (local time). Air India operates the connection four times a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
The new generation Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is configured with 18 seats in Business Class and 238 in Economy Class, and the Malpensa-Delhi scrapped service increases non-stop connectivity between Europe and India for business travelers tourism and business.

To welcome back Air India, Andrea Tuccivice president Aviation business development of Sea: “The carrier is among the fastest growing airlines and its decision to prioritize the reintroduction of Milan Malpensa further confirms the industry’s strong interest in the potential of our catchment area and in Northern Italy as a destination. The the return of direct flights to the Malpensa network helps to enhance connectivity to and from market in the Asian area, most affected by the isolation due to the pandemic crisis. From today Delhi will be the largest city reachable from Malpensa with its 30 million inhabitants which make it an enormous potential for traffic entering Italy”.

“Air India’s investment in our airport will be targeted at the capacity of the Northern Italy catchment area – added Tucci – intercepting both the market demand for the business travel and tourism segments and the large presence of the resident Indian community The Air India Hub will also improve the commercial offer by strengthening the quality of connectivity from and to the Indian subcontinent to Asia and Oceania”.

“The launch of our Delhi-Milan non-stop flights is a major step forward in ours five-year piano transformation Vihaan.AIwhich among other aspects aims to strengthen the global network of Air India as part of our vision to become a world-class international carrier – he stressed Nipun AggarwalCommercial Director of Air India -. The introduction of these flights will accelerate our plans in sync with theexpansion from the fleet. We look forward to welcoming our guests on this route to experience the positively changing Air India flight experience, of which the warmth of great Indian hospitality is a cornerstone.”

The service allows Air India customers from Italy and the rest of Europe to connect without problems – with transfers from the same terminal to Terminal 3 of Delhi airport – to other cities such as Jodhpur, Varanasi, Mumbai, Kochi , Goa, Chennai and Bangalore. Travelers can also avail Air India’s convenient connections to other countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia, such as Kathmandu, Colombo, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. Tourists planning to visit the Indian subcontinent and continue on to destinations in South Asia, Southeast Asia and even Australia will be able to benefit from this non-stop service between Milan and Delhi.

The resumption of this flight and the imminent relaunch of the services of Air India on the Vienna-Delhi and Copenhagen-Delhi routes, in addition to the planned Paris-Mumbai and Frankfurt-Mumbai flights, will significantly strengthen the airline’s presence in Europe where it will reach seven European cities with 79 weekly non-stop flights: 48 to the UK and 31 to mainland Europe. strengthening of operations accompanying the increase in the fleet with leased aircraft and the return to service of the aircraft in the fleet.