Plea to run Lanka flights to Vizag

Visakhapatnam: Air Travellers Association of India (ATAI) has asked the Sri Lankan deputy high commissioner to south India, Mr Vadivel Krishnamurthy, to organise a road show on Buddhism in association with AP Tourism Development Corporation at a venue central and accessible to Buddhist monks, business persons, industrialists, government officials and public in June or July this year.
The ATAI president, Mr D. Varada Reddy, asked the deputy high commissioner to organise another road sh-ow on Sri Lanka in Visakhapatnam and persuade Sri Lankan Airlines to operate a bi-weekly flight on the Colombo-Visakhapatnam sector to cater to the
Buddhist pilgrims who can visit shrines and to the benefit of those employed in Brandix India Apparel City and to the Special Economic Zone. Mr Reddy told the deputy high commissioner that over seven lakh air passengers from this region use Vizag airport, the only one in this region.
18/02/11 Deccan Chronicle

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