Indians living abroad can often have a hard time finding good flight deals to India. Half of the “coming back home” plans get canceled mid-way due to a financial crisis ringing on your mind. Sometimes, even if you find one pocket-friendly flight on schedule, it takes several halts. Not to mention long waiting hours for you to meet your loved ones. Well, if you’re an Indian looking for easy San Francisco to India Flights, then maybe we have good news for you. Yes, you read that right!
Lately, it has been reported that Air India is expected to launch direct SFO to BOM flights this summer season. This new flight will fly 8404 miles between the 2 places. Also, it gives you a tolerable duration of 16 hours, 30 minutes up in the sky. Currently, there is no direct flight available between San Francisco and Mumbai. However, with the new schedule, Air India from San Francisco to India will operate nine times a week.
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Out of 4335391 people in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area, 119,854 are Indians. It is one of the prime reasons for making this flight available. It is as per the US Census 2010. This number of Indian population there was not getting enough options for cheap flight deals to Mumbai and to India for that matter. With earlier options of airlines like Delta Airlines, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, Air Canada and Jet Airways the time taken to fly was 21-33 hours. Fortunately, it has been now reduced by a minimum of 4 hours with this new option coming up. Well, one of the many concerns for Indians living abroad is to bear the overburdening flight expenses and with a feasible option like this being introduced by Air India, it is expected to enable more population traveling in and out of the two countries.