Air India will launch its Air India ultra-long-haul route between Mumbai International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport in four days. The westbound Mumbai-to-Toronto flight will stop at Rome Fiumicino Airport and take more than 20 hours including the layover.
The return flight from Toronto to Mumbai will operate nonstop, creating two different trip patterns on the same service. Air India will run the route three times a week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Air India and Toronto Pearson
The new service uses a 328-seat Boeing 777-300ER. Air India says the aircraft will have eight first-class suites with privacy doors in a 1-2-1 configuration, 40 lie-flat business-class seats in a 1-2-1 layout, and 280 economy seats arranged mainly in a 3-4-3 configuration with 31 inches of seat pitch.
For passengers, that means the eastbound and westbound schedules will not match. One direction will be nonstop, while the other adds a stop in Rome Fiumicino Airport and extends the journey beyond 20 hours, a difference that matters when connecting travel plans are built around a single long-haul booking.
Air Canada and Mumbai
The launch fills a gap left earlier this year, when Air Canada withdrew from the Toronto-Mumbai market. Air Canada had previously operated four weekly flights on the route until March this year using its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, and it had also flown the market via London Heathrow Airport on a fifth-freedom basis in the winter 2022/2023 and winter 2023/2024 seasons.
Air Canada continues to fly daily between Delhi and Toronto, with its westbound service operating via either Rome Fiumicino Airport or Vienna International Airport. Air India is also operating more than 1,300 flights between India and North America this winter, with around 436,611 round-trip seats.
Toronto is the third-largest market between Mumbai and North America, and more than 1.2 million round-trip passengers traveled between Mumbai and Toronto between June 2025 and May 2026. The practical change for travelers is simple: Mumbai passengers now have another option on a route with strong demand, but westbound travelers will need to plan for a much longer trip than the return sector.
