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Destination of the week: India in autumn
When the airlines' new winter schedules come into effect tomorrow, the range of options to India will be wider than ever - and fares should continue to fall.
British Airways introduces a new non-stop flight from Heathrow to Bangalore. This route faces immediate competition from Air France - the French airline has a new route from Paris Charles de Gaulle, with connections from several UK airports.
BA's links with Mumbai (formerly Bombay) become twice-daily, in anticipation of BMI increasing its flights on the route to daily; and the number of BA flights to Chennai (formerly Madras) trebles to six a week.
The well-regarded privately owned Indian carrier, Jet Airways is launching daily flights from Heathrow to Delhi.
In addition, Hyderabad is a new route for KLM from Amsterdam, with connections from 14 UK airports.
less choice from Birmingham
The new airline schedules are not entirely positive. When the low-cost airline Duo went bust last year, most of its routes from Birmingham ended. But British Airways' CitiExpress short-haul subsidiary picked up the links from Birmingham to Rome and Vienna. Sadly, they have proved unprofitable and will end from tomorrow.
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