Friday, March 27, 2015

Gulf NRI Forum, Kuwait urges expats to fly by AIE direct flight to Mangaluru

Kuwait: Gulf NRI Forum president Pascal Pinto, appeals to the people of Karnataka, Kerala and surrounding region to support the ailing Air India Express (AIE) to ensure survival of the only direct flight service to Mangalore.

Addressing the media persons here on Thursday March 26, Gulf NRI Forum, Kuwait president Pascal Pinto, a well known community leader, social worker in Kuwait and India, revealed details of the efforts and hard work that went into ensuring commencement of direct flight service from Kuwait to Mangalore, a long seen dream of flying directly to our home land. He expressed his thanks and gratitude to all people involved in realization of this dream with special mention of leaders – former union minister Veerappa Moily, Kasargod MP Karunakaran and MUDA former chairman K Thejomaya for their whole-hearted support and the instrumental role they played to ensure Mangalore airport gaining international status and also direct flight from gulf to Mangalore. It is well known and can be proudly said that their constructive pressure to central government has yielded positive result. Please note that otherwise for international Airlines, we have to wait 2 or more years to complete needed runway to land the aircrafts.
 27/03/15 Bellevision.com
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