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Bengaluru, Feb 15: Passengers from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB) can soon fly directly to Seattle (United States) as American Airlines announced the launch of a new route from October 2020.

This would be the first non-stop flight between Bengaluru and the United States. The daily service will be between Bengaluru Airport and Seattle Tacoma Airport. It is expected to meet the demand of corporate customers and demand for travel to Seattle and adjoining areas in the US.

The Airline plans to operate a 285-seater Boeing 787-9 aircraft on this route. “The American Airlines flight between Bengaluru and Seattle will help further establish Bengaluru Airport as the gateway to a New India. This will create tremendous benefit for passengers travelling between the two countries. We will continue to explore attractive routes that connect Bengaluru to some of the most important destinations in India and abroad,” said Hari Marar, MD and CEO, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL).

The new route will give passengers easier and faster access to San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Denver, Arizona, Dallas, Chicago, West Coast and East states on a one-stop flight as compared to multiple stopovers in the past. BIAL recently launched new routes to Amsterdam and Addis Ababa, and the Tokyo and Munich routes are scheduled to begin shortly.

With this, BIAL will connect to 28 international destinations. American Airlines is also expanding its codeshare arrangement to include Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, who also intend to join the Oneworld Alliance.