Lufthansa team to come in Oct first week to explore Kochi-Europe direct flight

Kochi: A delegation from Lufthansa Airlines is likely to visit Cochin airport in the first week of October to explore the possibility of starting direct flight from here to Europe.
The visit is a sequel to the intense lobbying being carried out jointly by the officials of the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) , industrial associations and other stakeholders like travel agents and hospitality industry groups, to get any airlines to start direct flight from Kochi to Europe.
According to the CIAL sources, there is ample scope for launching direct flight from Kochi to Europe. "As per the inputs received from IATA sources, about 500 passengers fly from Kochi to Europe and US every day. This was a surprise revelation even to us. So far they had been flying mainly through the Gulf route. There is definitely a scope for a daily direct flight to Europe from Kochi,'' airport director ACK Nair told TOI.
The number of leisure travellers visiting Kerala from Europe annually is as high as 600,000.
21/09/11 T Ramavarman/Times of India

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