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A commercial flight of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the first into
Melbourne Airport, received a warm welcome on Friday.
Flight AI312
touched down about noon, having arrived from Delhi via Sydney 40 minutes
late.
The event marked the first time a state-of-the-art Dreamliner has
arrived in Australia on a passenger flight and the first direct Air
India flights to Australia for 16 years.
The daily 787 service
(AI311/312) will fly Melbourne-Delhi direct four times a week and via
Sydney three times a week to service Melbourne’s growing Indian
community, which has doubled since 2006.
