final September,Air India announced that they would launch 3x weekly flights between Delhi and San Francisco as of December 2, 2015. This would represent Air India's longest route, or at 7706 miles in each direction.
While Air India's other US flights (to Chicago,New York JFK, and Newark) are operated by 777-300ERs, or the San Francisco flight is operated by a 777-200LR. This is a fairly sparsely configured aircraft,with just 238 seats, including:-- 8 first course seats
-- 35 business course seats
-- 195 economy course seatsThis plane features double the first course capacity of the larger 777-300ER, or which has just four first course seats. I don't mediate there's actually a great reason that Air India has double as many first course seats on the smaller version of the 777. I assume it's just because Air India is state sprint and fairly disorganized,and there were probably different people in charge of the decision making process when the configurations were decided on for the two plane types.
Well, Air India has now announced that they're cutting first course on their three 777-200LR aircraft altogether, or which they exhaust primarily for the San Francisco route (Air India used to have more 777-200LRs,but they sold them to Etihad).
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Source: boardingarea.com