The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol. 20, No. 4, July, 2015The Quarterly Magazine (Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct) for the Indian DiasporaVol. 20 No. 4 www.pittsburghpatrika.com July 2015Phone/Fax: (724) 327 0953 e-mail: ThePatrika@aol.comInternational Air Travel:US & Persian Gulf Air Carriers CompeteTravelers Stand to GainBy Kollengode S. VenkataramanFor people traveling from second-tier cities like Pittsburgh andRaleigh in the US to second-tier cities in the Indian subcontinent(Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Lucknow, Peshawar, Kochi) the gate-to-gate traveltime can be daunting. Often three stopovers— a major hub in the US, a brief layoverin Europe, another major hub in Indialike Mumbai or Delhi with long layovers.Seniors or people traveling with infants andkids despair even before they leave home.This has changed now.A few years ago, the Big-3 Persian Gulf carriers — Emirates, Etihad,and Qatar — started their nonstops to US cities beyond JFK. We nowhave 18 nonstops to US cities such as Dallas, Houston, WashingtonDC, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Miami, to their hubs in Doha,Abu Dhabi, and Dubai in the Persian Gulf. Incidentally, Dubai and AbuDhabi, new entrants to high-end international travel, have state-of-the-arthubs and airport facilities. Later, the Big-3 US carriers (Delta, United,and American) also started their nonstops to the Persian Gulf to get theirmarket share.The Big-3 Persian Gulf carriers havenonstop flights from their hubs to secondtiercities like Ahmedabad, Amritsar,Goa, Kochi, Kozhikode, Lucknow,Multan, and Peshawar in the Indiansubcontinent. Several regional air carriers like Jet Airways, IndiGo alsohave nonstops from these Persian hubs to smaller cities in the Indiansubcontinent.Because of these options, the gate-to-gate travel times between second4
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