Air Canada to launch non-stop Delhi-Toronto flight

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Air Canada to launch non-stop Delhi-Toronto flights

NEW DELHI: After a gap of four years, Air Canada today announced resumption of its services with the launch of a non-stop daily service between Delhi and Toronto from October 18, which would provide convenient connections to the US with the Canadian city having scores of daily flights to New York, Washington, Chicago and other American cities.

Announcing this here, Air Canada's General Manager (India), Mr Ratindra Jang said that this 15-hour flight would do away with the inconvenience of five-hour stopovers and change of flights at european destinations and would `suit business travelers destined to North America the best.'

The Canadian carrier would operate a wide-bodied Airbus A-340-300 on the Delhi- Toronto sector. The airline had stopped its services from India in 1999.

He said the timing of the launch of this daily service was aimed at attracting the Diwali traffic as also the ethnic travelers, primarily from Punjab.

Mr Jang said the airline would launch a roadshow in the remote areas of Punjab soon to educate the people about the benefits of a non-stop flight to Canada which has a considerable Sikh population. He said an estimated 60 per cent of Air Canada's traffic was expected from this State. - PTI