Effective October 27, 2003, Air Canada will commence daily non-stop services between Delhi and Toronto, the only non-stop air link between India and North America. The new service will reduce at least three hours off traditional best routings offering travellers the convenience of early arrival times that allow for connections to many destinations.

Flights will be operated using state-of-the-art 282-seat Airbus A340 aircraft featuring Air Canada’s recently redesigned premium executive first service. To promote its new non-stop flights, Air Canada is offering a special introductory fare until July 17, 2003 for travel until November 30, 2003 starting as low as 47,500 rupees.

Disclosed Ross MacCormack, senior vice-president, international and alliance, Air Canada, “We are delighted with the prospect of starting non-stop services between Delhi and Toronto featuring a convenient schedule that offers travellers the option of same day connections to their final destination. This new route will create the only non-stop air link between India and North American providing our customers with the fastest travel time between Delhi and Toronto. With the added comfort of executive first service and the possibility of convenience connecting flights, our new non-stop Delhi service will be particularly attractive to business travellers. This new service is consistent with our strategy to profitably re-deploy aircraft while capitalising on market opportunities.”

Air Canada’s schedule has been designed to ensure maximum convenience and a great choice of connecting flights to and form key Canadian, Indian destinations, and US. Air Canada flight AC051 leaves Toronto at 17:15 and arrives in Delhi at 17:45 the next day with convenient connections to Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Colombo. From Delhi, AC052 leaves at 01:10 and arrives in Toronto at 06:10 the same day providing customers convenient connections on Air Canada’s extensive network throughout North America.