Delta is replacing its one-stop 767 service to Mumbai, India with nonstop 777 service from JFK. Accra, Ghana will also be served 4 times weekly from JFK. India nonstop for the first time was done in the fall by CAL from Newark and AA fron ORD to Dehli. This is Mumbai's first nonstop, what will soon turn into a tiddle wave. Air India has ordered 777-200LR & -300ER's which will soon replace their 747 via Europe to USA. Jet Airways is coming to the USA, I don't know when and where to, but it has 10 777-300ER on order coming to India soon.
My question when I first heard Delta was going nonstop to Mumbai is, where are the planes coming from? Delta has 8 777's, Atlanta to Tokyo daily; then Atl-TelAviv daily; then, in the fall, Atlanta to South Africa daily, & finally Jfk to Mumbai, India. Are there some spare 777 Delta has some where? This schedule could be served with 8 777, BARELY. Any incite will be appreciated by JFK777.