The non-stop four-time weekly service will not only connect Hyderabad to Hong Kong but would also provide onward connectivity to several destinations in the US and the Asia Pacific, said an official of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), which operates Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here.
D. P. Hemanth, chief operating officer, hub development, cargo, free trade zone, GHIAL, said this while addressing a conference of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
On concerns raised by representatives from information technology over low international connectivity, Hemanth said one of the constraints was the bilaterals. "We don't get as many bilaterals as we would like to because bilaterals are negotiations between two countries," he explained.
On Lufthansa pulling out of Hyderabad, the official said it took the decision for a very odd reason. "They had an internal issue of load stocking. They want to take passengers from India to Europe and from Europe to the US. Most of our IT folks from here go directly to the US. They had yield challenge and they could not spare an additional airframe. We went even upto Lufthansa board to talk to them," he said.
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