Air India Ltd will connect Delhi to Rome, Milan, Moscow, Melbourne, Sydney and Birmingham with direct flights in a bid to expand its footprint, one-and-a-half decades after it stopped flying to many of these cities, the airline’s chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan said in an interview.
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Ideally speaking, which airline would not like to be protected, but that is not how the world is going to function. Our product will be superior to others and that is how we will compete. We are introducing Rome and Milan (Italy), Moscow (Russia), Birmingham (Britain) in the next three-five months, then we are introducing (flights to) Australia.
