Domestic Charters/Seasonal - Airliners-India

Aseem · Member

Domestic Charters/Seasonal

tayara mechanici · Member

India is considered to be the size of continental europe, using EU as a example where in, there is North-South charter traffic via package tours, same, there is plenty of scope to fly the southies to the cool himalayas during summer and the punjus to the coastal resorts of kerala, Tamil-Nadu in winter.

-- Edited by tayara mechanici at 23:17, 2006-08-05

Aseem · Member

in North I've seen plenty of chartered trains especially from South and West. One wonders if bureaucratic nightmare like railways can manage that, then why can't sauve airlines. Maybe once the compitition grows, we will see players looking for newer markets.

Also one wonders when major carriers will wake up to what's TG is doing to BKK and start offering couple of days of stay to transiting passenger. Maybe this will remain a big joke till our airports are transit friendly.

rgds

VT-ASJ

-- Edited by Aseem at 01:07, 2006-08-06

tayara mechanici · Member

Aseem wrote:

in North I've seen plenty of chartered trains especially from South and West. One wonders if bureaucratic nightmare like railways can manage that, then why can't sauve airlines. Maybe once the compitition grows, we will see players looking for newer markets.

Also one wonders when major carriers will wake up to what's TG is doing to BKK and start offering couple of days of stay to transiting passenger. Maybe this will remain a big joke till our airports are transit friendly.

rgds

VT-ASJ

-- Edited by Aseem at 01:07, 2006-08-06

The greatest barrier for all that you propose at the moment is the acute shortage of Hotel rooms. Taj group of hotels have identified this and have a ambitious project to build 100000 budget hotel rooms under a unique brand across India, i believe ITC is also got a similar project.

Presently the emphasis of most Tour operators in India is to chase the Intl tourist foreign and domestic due to the obvious, better yield factor. On the hotel accomodation front unless there is a huge correction in the real astate market in India wherein excess stock is moved to hospitality, IMO there is no quick solution in the forseable future. I visit goa during winters when possible, it is an absolute nightmare with accomodation, but then you don't want the cheap travellers from EU specially britain if the hotels are dirt cheap like in Thai, they only invite trouble drugs, disease you know what i mean.

In Delhi they plan to allow home owners to host guests as they did in Mohali during the last match with pak. Probably that could be a solution to boost domestic tourism by yuppie crowd on weekends using LCC.

Check the thread ''Paramount airline - status ?''. There are loads of city pairs untapped with tourism potential.

-- Edited by tayara mechanici at 02:05, 2006-08-08