Air India on Saturday said it would offer seamless travel to its customers flying to San Francisco from Bengaluru via its Delhi flight despite change in the aircraft as passengers would be allowed to complete all custom and immigration formalities at the originating airport itself for their onward journey. The airline is scheduled to commence a direct flight service to the Silicon Valley from the national capital from December 2.
Air India has already announced that the new flight will be operated by the wide-body Boeing 777-200lR aircraft. Air India would offer seamless travel between Silicon Valley of East (Bengaluru) to San Francisco (Silicon Valley of West) via Delhi and passengers travelling to San Francisco will undergo all custom and immigration formalities at Bengaluru airport itself for their onward journey, the airline said in a release.
According to the airline, the flight AI-173 from Bengaluru to Delhi will depart on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from Bengaluru at 2115 hours with a A321 aircraft.