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Looking at FlightRadar24 this evening and didn’t know AC flew to Delhi out of YYZ. Long flight gotta be close to 14 hrs back to YYZ, would it be be a couple of days layover in Delhi. Must be an interesting city for sure.
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They also fly out of YUL. Close to 13 flights a week I in total to Delhi between the two airports!
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Layover length varies, but the shortest is 25 hours.
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I know a few former RPs who went and said it was cool to go once but didn’t want to go back a second time. Something to do with what they called Delhi belly. :wink:
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As long as you don't eat or drink anything there, you'll be fine.
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Daily from Vancouver, upto 2 daily from toronto, and 1 from Montreal coming soon. Also Mumbai to Toronto is coming too. All flights are full!
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Lt. Daniel Kaffee wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:51 am As long as you don't eat or drink anything there, you'll be fine.
Lol easier said than done!! :P
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WhatThe? wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:05 pm Daily from Vancouver, upto 2 daily from toronto, and 1 from Montreal coming soon. Also Mumbai to Toronto is coming too. All flights are full!
Must take flight crews a few days to get back to some type of normality upon return home even with lay over time and on board rest(RP). Couple of those trips per month and you are probably done?
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The food is fabulous if you go to the right places. Just don't eat the street food :lol:

But yes Old Fella. Delhi is definitely "interesting".
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Old fella wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:16 am Couple of those trips per month and you are probably done?
In the 90s I had a neighbour who flew the 767 at AC. I seem to remember he’d bid one Delhi turn and one Halifax turn each month and be upset for the next three weeks that he had to work an hour over the minimum.
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Along with Dubai, Delhi, Tel Aviv and Istanbul are on the AC list. Any favorites amongst the lot to those '87 guys/gals who do the driving. Then again after a few trips does it become just another few long days at work.
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Not that I want to make this an " back in my day" thread...but "back in my day", when I was a youngun', we did 14 day pairings to India and Singapore. The pairing was:

YYZ-LHR (2 DAY LAYOVER)
LHR-BOM (2 DAY LAYOVER)
DEL-SIN (1 DAY LAYOVER)
SIN-BOM (2 DAY LAYOVER)
BOM-LHR (2 DAY LAYOVER)
LHR-YYZ

Later the Bombays got changed to Delhi, but it was still a 12-14 day pairing.

Crew planning (scheduling) couldn't build monthly blocks with these long pairings. They had to build 3-month blocks to make everything fit.
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The Raven wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:21 am Not that I want to make this an " back in my day" thread...but "back in my day", when I was a youngun', we did 14 day pairings to India and Singapore. The pairing was:

YYZ-LHR (2 DAY LAYOVER)
LHR-BOM (2 DAY LAYOVER)
DEL-SIN (1 DAY LAYOVER)
SIN-BOM (2 DAY LAYOVER)
BOM-LHR (2 DAY LAYOVER)
LHR-YYZ

Later the Bombays got changed to Delhi, but it was still a 12-14 day pairing.

Crew planning (scheduling) couldn't build monthly blocks with these long pairings. They had to build 3-month blocks to make everything fit.
Hello Raven, nice to hear from you. Quite a long paring, imagine ya had to take extra skivvies, shirts and the like, big laundry day when you got home. Hard on the ole belly with different food types and on the head with time zones I suppose. Bet you could tell a few cockpit stories and layover antics but being the old guard - your lips are sealed.
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