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Written By silkboard - 8 July, 2007

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Read today that Air India is planning a non-stop Bangalore - SFO connection. Cool! Long pending, this thing was. I have always wondered why Jet or Air India haven't tried to eat into all the money Lufthansa, Singapore, British etc are making on Bangalore - US West Coast routes. I bet once KingFisher gets its permit to fly abroad, we'd have another BLR-SFO direct.

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any idea how long these

tsubba - 8 July, 2007 - 13:24

any idea how long these flights will take? i like my break after 8 hours. stretch about, gitt some coffee, even if heavily overpriced. sitting for 14 hrs non stop in a pressurized chamber is a downer man. especially if force fed samosas and all.

About 17 hours?

silkboard - 9 July, 2007 - 03:49

SF should be about 9000 miles direct (wild guess, its 10k miles via London). 600 miles an hour puts this at 15 hours. Add 2 more and you get 17. BTW, Singapore to NY/JFK non-stop is about 18-19 hours if I remember it right. This should be a few hours less than that.

15 hours! god.

- 9 July, 2007 - 14:47

15 hours! god.

geographical route ...

- 10 July, 2007 - 12:23

will this route be directly over siberia and just a few miles off the north pole? - s.b.

i dont think so. some long

tsubba - 10 July, 2007 - 12:26

i dont think so. some long haul crafts only.

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