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Air India applies to fly polar route
Canada News.Net
Saturday 5th July, 2008
Air India intends using the polar routes for long haul operations.
In July last year, the state-owned carrier became the first Indian airline to fly over the North Pole while ferrying a new Boeing from the Boeing headquarters in Seattle to Delhi.
Air India plans to start operations from Delhi to the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York if it receives the regulatory approval.
Air traffic control facilities in the polar region are very limited and can handle only few planes at a time.
At present, only a few US carriers fly a handful of times a week between the Midwest and the Far East using the transpolar route.
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