New Delhi, Jul 1: In a remarkable development, Air India has succeeded in carrying three percent more passengers between June 1 and June 20 compared to same period last year.
The achievement assumes significance in view of the fact that Air India has achieved this feat despite a 55-day-long strike. Air India is also planning to resume flights to Hong Kong this week.
In its monthly performance review, the airline found that it had carried more than 716,000 passengers during the first 20 days of June-- a rise of three percent compared to the corresponding period of 2011.
The company has decided to introduce promotion schemes to maintain high passenger traffic. The passenger carrier is also trying to restart some of its strike-hit services to East Asia.
The passenger carrier has already started services to Shanghai and Tokyo, both destinations which were shelved after the strike started. Currently, the airline is operating only 38 of its original 45 services. Among the seven axed international destinations are Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul and Toronto.
