Air India announce Munich as Euro hub

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 02 Oct 2007, 15:19

Air India to Open European hub in Munich

Air India hopes to set up its first overseas hub in Munich next year.
All US and Canadabound Air India flights will stop at this hub for
passengers to switch planes to reach the destination of choice. Air
India’s move follows Jet Airways’ development of a hub at Brussels for
its US expansion. Munich Airport handled 30.76 million passengers last
year and was named the best airport in Europe and the third best
worldwide after Singapore Changi Airport and Hong Kong International
Airport.

AI plans to operate eight flights to the hub from different Indian
cities daily. While its domestic operations (formerly Indian Airlines)
will feed the national hubs, the international flights will again act as
spokes to the European hub. While the North American leg will be
serviced by its own flights, the Europe leg will be served by partner
airlines.

euroflyer · Post by **euroflyer** » 02 Oct 2007, 15:28

Another big improvement for the *alliance, they will be able to offer many good connections from European cities via Munich to India with this big number of flights to India from MUC which will probably all arrive and leave around the same time

kiwiandrew · Post by **kiwiandrew** » 02 Oct 2007, 15:47

Thank you for the interesting news - I have to admit that on the few occassions I have used MUC I have found it to be a great airport .

Do you have a link to the announcement ? I cant find anything on google news or on AI website

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 02 Oct 2007, 19:48

kiwiandrew wrote:Thank you for the interesting news - I have to admit that on the few occassions I have used MUC I have found it to be a great airport .

Do you have a link to the announcement ? I cant find anything on google news or on AI website

I have not seen the 'official' bit yet either, but its from a very good source

thats all i can say right now,

T

kiwiandrew · Post by **kiwiandrew** » 02 Oct 2007, 20:14

ok , but in that case maybe you should not have used the word 'announce' in the topic title ....just yet anyway

Jet Blast · Post by **Jet Blast** » 02 Oct 2007, 21:38

You really should post a link to the website that you copied it from.

http://airliners1.wordpress.com/2007/09 ... in-munich/

Ducatibiker · Post by **Ducatibiker** » 02 Oct 2007, 21:52

Nothing official yet on Air India joining *Alliance...although I would agree that making MUC the European hub would be a logical step towards that move

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 03 Oct 2007, 07:02

Jet Blast wrote:You really should post a link to the website that you copied it from.

http://airliners1.wordpress.com/2007/09 ... in-munich/

I would have posted a link to that website had I copied it from there

but as I got it from a certain Press office I can only assume they sent iot there as well, but hey what the hell..............

T

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