Grooms go high-flying in eastern parts of UP

Lucknow: A young entrepreneur in Purvanchal has launched a helicopter service to carry grooms to marriage pandals and fly the couple back home after `bidai'.
The service is just a phone call away and requires apart from Rs 51,000 as charges only a barren plot of land near the venue of the wedding for choppers landing. The rest of the requirements are taken care of by the service provider. "In western UP, this is nothing new. But for us, perhaps this is the first such service in India,'' says a beaming RK Tripathi, who has come up with this service.
But, can people in the this part of the state, considered one of the poorest, afford such a leisure? Tripathi is sure they can. "Shelling out a lakh of rupees to make your wedding different from everybody else in town is no longer a big deal in UP. At least our market survey says so.''
Tripathi has a list of chopper flights chartered by over half a dozen people mostly in western UP for wedding during the recent past. The service was provided by agencies based in Delhi.
22/11/08 Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui/Times of India

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