After a nine-and-a-half-hour flight from Mumbai, India's economic capital, an IndiGo Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (chartered by Norse Atlantic Airways) landed at Manchester Airport at 9:28 a.m. local time on July 1. With this flight, India's leading airline made its debut in European skies. The following day, July 2, the second route to the Old Continent opened, this time between Mumbai and Amsterdam, also with three weekly frequencies, like the one to Manchester. Before the end of the year, IndiGo plans to launch direct connections to Athens, Copenhagen, and London.