Margao: High travel costs, airport fees for handling and a few other factors have forced Condor Airlines to discontinue its operations to the state, three decades after it brought the first charter flight of foreign tourists to Goan shores.
The charter tourists and the German airline find travel costs and other overheads high and the Dabolim airport more expensive than some of their own airports.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, a Condor official Uwe Balser said, "Like all firms, we, too, seek to make profits but we cannot do so in Goa as the travel costs, airport fees for handling, etc are too expensive for the charter tourist flying to Goa."
Balser said that Dabolim airport is the most expensive as compared to Frankfurt and other destinations.
24/12/14 Times of India
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The charter tourists and the German airline find travel costs and other overheads high and the Dabolim airport more expensive than some of their own airports.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, a Condor official Uwe Balser said, "Like all firms, we, too, seek to make profits but we cannot do so in Goa as the travel costs, airport fees for handling, etc are too expensive for the charter tourist flying to Goa."
Balser said that Dabolim airport is the most expensive as compared to Frankfurt and other destinations.
24/12/14 Times of India
