Air Canada has its eye on a major new route: the airline is considering starting daily flights to India by the end of the year, according to a report int he globe&mail. However, two obstacles that could hinder the plans are first a shortage of planes ("China is using up all our fleet!") and second, a fear that demand won't be consistent enough through the year to make the routes (likely non-stop to Toronto from Delhi and Mumbai) viable.

Canadian tourism in India is picking up -- there were no fewer than 20 separate Canadian tourism events held in India last year to entice the industry, with Niagara Falls the number one draw. But tourists come in the relatively short season, December through March, before the temperatures head above 30C. There is plenty of traffic in the family of Indo-Canadians coming and going, but they fly over once a year and stay "until the very last day of their six-month visa" -- so they won't fill planes.

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