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The number of British Airways flights between London Heathrow and India will almost double when the airline's winter schedule begins next Sunday, the company announced on Monday.
BA had announced in April plans to begin increasing flights between Heathrow -- the world's busiest international airport -- and cities across India from October following an agreement signed between the British and Indian governments.
"The massive expansion in our India flights is something that we have wanted to do for a considerable time but were halted by restrictive bilateral agreements between the British and Indian governments," BA's director of planning Robert Boyle said in a statement on Monday.
"Now that these restrictions have been lifted we can build on our 75 years of experience of operating to the subcontinent."
Liberalisation of the aviation market between the two countries has enabled British Airways to increase its number of weekly flights between Heathrow and India to 35 from 19.
The new schedule sees services to Mumbai doubling to two flights daily, a new service to Bangalore operating five times per week and weekly flights to Chennai increasing to six from two.
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