Season’s first Condor flight arrives

Panaji: The president of Travel and Tourism Association of Goa, Mr Ralph de Souza has said that this year (2006) has been a year of reckoning for the tourism industry of Goa, as a new beginning has been made with the arrival of scheduled international flights to the state.
Addressing a press conference here this afternoon to announce the arrival of first scheduled flight of Condor from Frankfurt (Germany), Mr de Souza, who also heads the tourism committee of the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that this would give freedom to choose their travel and accommodation.
He also said that besides three international airlines (Condor, SriLankan Airlines and Transair), Emirates have also been granted landing and take off slots on Fridays. He also said that some more scheduled airlines would also come to the state in the future. “It was Condor which brought foreign tourists to Goa directly in 1984 and put it on international map, when its first charter flight landed here,” said the TTAG chief.
02/11/06 Navhind Times

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