Hyderabad International Airport All Set to Have Non-stop Connectivity with the United States of America by Air India from 15 January.

• Air India to connect Hyderabad with Chicago from 15th Jan onwards.
• To serve over 7 Lakh passengers from Hyderabad to the USA annually.
• Additionally, 2.2 Lakh passengers from Hyderabad surrounding to USA.
• Boeing 777-200 aircraft, with seat capacity of 238 to operate.

Hyderabad: GMR led Hyderabad International Airport, announced an all-new non-stop service to Chicago. Air India, the national carrier will be starting its direct, non-stop flight between Hyderabad and Chicago effective 15th January 2021. The Airline would be operating with Boeing 777-200 aircraft, with seat capacity of 238 (8 First Class + 35 Business Class + 195 Economy Class).

Hyderabad-USA-Hyderabad, has been the largest unserved passenger Hyderabad and the US, with a potential of over 700,000 passengers annually. Hyderabad is a gateway to South & Central India, and a preferred and the largest transit hub. It offers convenient proximity for passengers originating from the nearby cities, viz. Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Rajahmundry, Bhopal, and Tirupati among others pushing an additional demand of approx. 220,000 passengers annually.

Hyderabad is second home to the US giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google etc. to name a few. The progressive measures taken by the Telangana State Government, the investments especially from the US based companies in Hyderabad have increased manifold and continues to increase. The USA has been numerous uno destination for IT exports from Hyderabad with ~70% of the total IT exports from Hyderabad to the US.

A direct connectivity to the US from Hyderabad was long due and is much deserving offering from Air India to the corporate community from the regions. The First Class and Business class offerings of Air India will surely be an experience fitting the customers valuing high taste.

The Telugu diaspora from the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh regions, is one of the fastest growing community in the US. As per some estimates every 4th student traveling abroad for studies from India is from the Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. India is the 2nd largest source country for foreign students coming to USA each year.

Also, Hyderabad is known as the Pharma Capital of India and a Vaccine Manufacturing Hub of India. Now a direct connectivity to USA would provide the much-needed impetus to its Pharma industry for Air Cargo uplift. The current annual air cargo tonnage in the Hyderabad-USA market segment is pegged at 22,000 metric tons and growing at 8% annually. This flight could play an important role in providing the logistic support to transport COVID vaccines between the two regions.

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