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The Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers' Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands has demanded additional Air India flights between Chennai-Port Blair and Kolkatta - Port Blair sectors in view of the impending summer vacation. In a Fax Message sent to the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Air India Ltd., Mumbai, Shri D.Ayyappan, General Secretary of the Association informed him that hundreds of government employees of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and their family members who have to visit their home towns on the mainland or to visit mainland for various purposes, are stranded in the islands due to non-avalability of flight tickets. He stated that Air India is operating one flight each from Chennai and Kolkatta to Port Blair daily which is insufficient to meet the summer vacation rush here. It was further stated that no additional flight between Port Blair and Kolkatta/Chennai sector has been announced by the Air India Ltd., so far.
He expressed concern over the non-availability of tickets even to pateints to mainland hospitals. On the exhorbitant fare being charged by the Air India Ltd., he told the Chairman-cum-Managing Director that tickets in the Air India flights are block booked for tourists while government employees and other islanders are forced to purchase tickets on exhorbitant fare both from Air India and private airlines. Shri. Ayyappan informed the Air India Ltd. that gorvenment employees are in an agitated mood here and sought the intervention of the Chairman-cum-Managing Director to have some additional Air India flights between Chennai-POrt Blair and Kolkatta-Port Blair in order to ease the summer vacation rush in the above sectors. The Association has further urged the Air India Ltd. that massive booking of low fare tickets for tourists from mainland may be discouraged at least during summer vacation
D.Ayyppan
General Secretary
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