The London-based entrepreneur said he was hopeful the Mumbai-London sector would also become a daily flight.
Air Koryo's daily flight from Beijing was only half full on Tuesday.
Virgin Airlines already has a daily flight between London and Delhi.
Delta will run one daily flight in each direction, with the eastbound flight leaving Newark's Liberty Airport at 6:50 p.m. local time, and the westbound flight departing Charles DeGaulle Airport at 1:30 p.m. local.
Two of the children on the Daily Mail flight were survivors of the American airlift crash near Saigon last week.
The daily in-flight checks had been completed and were found to be satisfactory.
But security will be extremely tight when a daily Miami-Havana flight starts shortly.
Friday's additional flights will bring Reagan National up to about 250 daily flights -- roughly one-third of the flight load it carried before September 11.
Before and after flight operations he will likely be meeting with department heads, participating in daily briefings with the embarked flag officer and the CAG, and completing numerous administrative responsibilities generated by a command as large as the carrier.
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"On behalf of the other four crew members of Flight 1549 and also on behalf of the many thousands of aviation professionals whose daily devotion to duty keeps air travel safe, I gratefully accept this recognition, " he said.
The story was splashed across the front page of the respected daily on Thursday morning and later police confirmed that they had intercepted Mr Ricardo Cavallo in Cancun on a flight bound for the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
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