Ahmedabad: They had packed all the excitement and donned their travel shoes to take their first ever foreign tour to Dubai. However, dreams of this group of 42 senior citizens crashed when they reached Ahmedabad international airport on Thursday night. The airlines officials told them there are no bookings in their names.
The senior citizens, most of whom were carrying a list of places they will see in Dubai and items they will shop, got in arguments with the travel agent accompanying them at the airport but gave up soon and returned back home.
The group had members of a senior citizens' club in Maninagar which had booked their four-day Dubai tour two months ago through city-based Gopi Krishna travels for Rs 33,525 per person. The promoter of the travel agency, Natwarlal Mistry had hired services of an airline ticketing company Passworld Travels to do a group booking for September 20 in FlyDubai. Mistry paid the ticketing company 25 per cent of the total fare a month back but failed to pay the rest amount.
22/09/12 Times of India
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The senior citizens, most of whom were carrying a list of places they will see in Dubai and items they will shop, got in arguments with the travel agent accompanying them at the airport but gave up soon and returned back home.
The group had members of a senior citizens' club in Maninagar which had booked their four-day Dubai tour two months ago through city-based Gopi Krishna travels for Rs 33,525 per person. The promoter of the travel agency, Natwarlal Mistry had hired services of an airline ticketing company Passworld Travels to do a group booking for September 20 in FlyDubai. Mistry paid the ticketing company 25 per cent of the total fare a month back but failed to pay the rest amount.
22/09/12 Times of India
