 "Air India starts direct flights to Sydney, Melbourne")
Melbourne: Becoming the first airlines to bring Dreamliner onthe Australian soil with itstriangular direct flightsto Sydney and Melbourne,Air India (AI) is noweyeingondirect services from the two citiesseparately toDelhi.
“We are trying to see how Australia will commercially response to us. We feel its an excellent flight with least possible time to take to come to India,” Air India chairman Rohit Nandan told reporters.[caption id=“attachment_1082045” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Connecting more with Australia. PTI[/caption]
“We are offering the best product in the world. We certainly expect that we will get a massive response from here,” he said.
“Our aim is as soon as we commercially stabilise and we have the equipments, we will be flying directly to Sydney and directly to Melbourne all seven days as week,” Nandan said.
He said the response so for the bookings have been good and thejets which hasa total capacity of 256seats wereflying with at least200 filled seats.
“Our flights are booked by upto 80 percent and it is quite a success for the airlines,” he said, adding that to start the direct flights separately to the two Australian cities, there were some regulatory issues which needed to be sorted out with the Australian side.
In regards to marketing strategies to taptravellers from Australia,Nandan said that the airlines has been in touch with the business councils of the two countries.
“Wehave been trying to penetrate into agencies, agents and we will be soon appointing a GSA very soon who will have its own network of agents. Besides this we will be reaching out to the Indian community,” he said.
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