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Why A Rumored United Airlines' Ultra-Long-Haul Flight Could Become Among The Most Profitable Routes In Aviation (simpleflying.com)

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For some time now, industry rumors suggest United Airlines is about to launch new ultra-long-haul services between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and India specifically, Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) and Bengaluru Airport (BLR). These incredibly long routes would cover a distance of 7,706 miles (12,401 km) and 8,701 miles (14,003 km), respectively. For comparison, Qantas' notoriously long flight between Perth (PER) and London Heathrow (LHR) is only 300 miles (483 km) longer than the latter.

If these new flights were to become a reality, they would complement the existing daily service between San Francisco and Delhi operated by fellow Star Alliance member Air India. This flight currently has a stopover in Kolkata (CCU) due to operational restrictions following several airspace closures. Moreover, the Indian flag carrier also served San Francisco from both Mumbai Airport (BOM) and Bengaluru before the routes were suspended by the airline in February this year due to aircraft availability.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Side note: it's interesting that the IATA codes for Kolkata and Mumbai are still based on those cities' old colonial names (Calcutta and Bombay). The cities were officially renamed in 2001 and 1995 respectively. You'd think the nationalist impetus behind the name changes would extend to the airport codes, but apparently those didn't particularly bother anyone 🙂

[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

A lot of airport codes are outdated.