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Another new player joins the bandwagon- GO AIR . The Cartel expands – the traveller has nothing to gain at all however. Fares to and from Port Blair to Kolkata /Chennai remain as exorbitant as ever .

It is needless to give illustrations or details as they are all available on the web and can be readily verified – but the point is –IS ANYBODY REALLY INTERESTED?

Inspite of the fact that Andaman & Nicobar Islands are cut off from the mainland and have no rail/road transport facilities- the only alternative being travelling by ship ( leaving Kolkata /Chennai Ports once in a week or ten days and taking 3-4 days time ) air travel remains highly exorbitant.

Would a general traveller from the metros to other cities on a 2 hour flight be ready to shell out 10000=00 plus generally and even 20000=00 plus at times (if on an immediate purchase ticket) ? The answer is anybody’s guess!!

Is this also not corruption in a different form ? Squeezing out money from the consumer ,taking advantage of the non – availability of alternatives !!

For similar dates a Kolkata- Delhi flight (same duration of 2 hours) costs half or even one fourth of the corresponding fares for Port Blair-Kolkata or vice versa. The same holds good for a 2 hour haul from Chennai too !!

Is the ever eager and anxious media not prepared to take up such a issue which in the interest of the people who are separated from the mainland by 1200 kms of sea!!

The print and visual media has come of age – and it is but expected that such issues are taken up threadbare and the nexus behind the entire understanding of maintaining the fares at a pre determined level – is exposed !!

The islanders are looking forward to some response from the ever vigilant media !!
Please come forward to show your social commitment !!

friend i spoke to rennie she is free to do some free lancing for your journal. hope things r fine with you u can very well interact with her....take care

friend when r u free pl give me a call when u come this end

 

yesterday hindu had and article on the disease caused by crushing activities.

have a wondrful b'day to u

He Zubair, nice to read from you! I hope you and your family are fine. Last week, I had a very intense time with you - or at least your voice - doing a transcription of the almost 3-hour interview with you that we had last year in June. So I am very much into our conversation, if it might be appearing long time back for you! I am also reading every two weeks the issues of LOA, your "viewspaper" as you called it, so I am very much in the Andamans with my mind. Actually, I am planning to come to the Andamans this year, I will inform you as soon as possible. Tell also all the best to Govinda Raju and Mohamed Parveen! Hope to see you soon, greetings from Munich, (where we have the coldest may ever, not more than 18 degree Celsius) Philipp