The liberalisation of the aviation market between the two countries has enabled British airways to increase its number of weekly flights from 19 to 35, the BA announced.
It said services to Mumbai from London's Heathrow airport would be doubled with two flights each day. While a new service to Bangalore would operate five times each week, flights to Chennai would increase from two to six per week.
A daily service to Delhi would continue, though this would increase to a double daily service next summer. Flights to Kolkata would remain at three each week.
"The massive expansion in our India flights is something that we have wanted to do for a considerable time but were halted by restrictive bilateral agreements between the British and Indian governments," said Robert Boyle, British Airways' director of planning.
"Now that these restrictions have been lifted, we can build on our 75 years of experience of operating to the subcontinent," he said in a statement.
International Air Transport Association predicts that India's International air traffic would grow by an average of 8.4 per cent annually between 2004 and 2009, the BA statement said.
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