Soon, fly direct from Delhi to San Francisco

Noting that mega corporations were once startups, Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared his new government to a startup that had its own share of bumps.

In another initiative, Air India will introduce “Incredible Air India Holiday Packages” in association with state governments from December 1, 2015 and will start Delhi-San Francisco direct flight from December 2.

In fact, Modi returned to the stage to make the announcement after he had ended his one hour long speech. It will operate three days a week (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday).

Air India is preparing to deploy a Boeing 777-200 LR (Long Range) aircraft for the thrice-a-week Delhi-San Francisco flight at the behest of the PMO without prior route viability studies, multiple sources in the airline have told The Telegraph. Air India already operates routes to New York, Newark and Chicago.

The resource is calling to actually please the larger Indian group in America’s Silicon Valley, exactly where Modi compensation an appointment on Saturday.

Because the routing takes the flight to New Delhi in northern India instead of Bengaluru in the south, it won’t be the world’s longest non-stop. Likewise, the return flight from San Francisco will provide onward connections to nine cities i.e. Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Pune and Bhubaneswar.

The service has yet to be confirmed by regulators and the airline’s board of directors, and a few observers have questioned whether it would be profitable, the Times reported.

The main tech centers of India – Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi – will now be directly connected to San Francisco, a link that Modi hopes will prove beneficial for Indians and members of the Indian Diaspora, who have moved to the United States to work at tech companies.