For international travel, frequent flyers look at network and Air India's global network is weak.
Markets ended higher, amid firm global cues, and are on track for third straight day of gains.
'It's like your own private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself. This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, recalls, with both anguish and elation, the events of the last fortnight after the US President's order banning entry for people from seven countries was put in place.