Ashwani Lohani, CMD, Air India and senior officials of state tourism departments met in New Delhi recently to work out the modalities of the Incredible Air India Holiday Packages to be launched from December 1, 2015. Among the states represented were Maharashtra, Karnataka, Sikkim, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu & Kashmir.
Tourists will have the option of choosing from 3-4 packages in each state. The packages will cover a wide range of interests like wildlife reserves, religious places, adventure sports like skiing in Gulmarg and Srinagar, paragliding in Kangra, forts, museums, festivities & fairs like Pushkar in Rajasthan, etc. The two nights/three day packages will be attractively priced and will be available for direct purchase from the Air India website.
Lohani also shared that Air India would be increasing the intra-state connectivity with the ATR-72 aircraft, operated by subsidiary Alliance Air. The ATR-72 operations provide the tourists a convenient means of transport within states, for short sectors. Alliance Air is currently operating ATR-72 flights under the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) basis, in the North-Eastern states, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep Islands, Karnataka and Puducherry.
