American Airlines is considering flying to Africa and India with new Dreamliners
American Airlines, lacking the global footprint of its top two US competitors, may expand to India and Africa once a second batch of Boeing 787 orders starts arriving next year, an executive said. “That’s the airplane that is going to take us eventually to India and into Africa, and into markets which are very different from the ones that we have been in historically, but ones we believe will be very profitable,” said Vasu Raja, the airline’s VP for planning. With 47 new Boeing 787s set to arrive over several years beginning in 2020, in addition to 42 others from an earlier order, Raja said he is thinking bigger, asking whether American should return to India and enter Africa for the first time. He stressed no route announcements are imminent. <br/>
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American Airlines is considering flying to Africa and India with new Dreamliners
American Airlines, lacking the global footprint of its top two US competitors, may expand to India and Africa once a second batch of Boeing 787 orders starts arriving next year, an executive said. “That’s the airplane that is going to take us eventually to India and into Africa, and into markets which are very different from the ones that we have been in historically, but ones we believe will be very profitable,” said Vasu Raja, the airline’s VP for planning. With 47 new Boeing 787s set to arrive over several years beginning in 2020, in addition to 42 others from an earlier order, Raja said he is thinking bigger, asking whether American should return to India and enter Africa for the first time. He stressed no route announcements are imminent. <br/>
