IAAI welcomes Maha team
With the new team in place for its Maharashtra chapter, IAAI has also announced new plans including formation of a women’s cell.
The IATA Agents Association of India (IAAI) welcomed its new committee members for its Maharashtra chapter in Mumbai recently. Presided over by Biji Eapen, National President, IAAI, the team conducted its Annual General Meeting followed by a networking evening. Eapen said, “The previous Maharashtra Committee headed by Chetan Gandhi and Siddharth Shah couldn’t get enough time to actively take forward IAAI matters due lack of time and support. So, an extraordinary AGM was called on December 29, 2018 to form an ad-hoc committee to take up the responsibility and nominated a new committee headed by Manish Synghal, Director, Dimaz Aviation.”
The members unanimously accepted the new team for the Maharashtra chapter which comprises Manish Synghal of Dimaz Aviation as President, Rajesh Acharya of Balaji Travels as Vice President, RT Iyer of Farsak Travels as Secretary and Sarosh Parakh of Aero Agencies as Treasurer. The Managing Committee members include Arvind Tandon, Ark Travels, Rosita Haribal of Travel Forte, Neelu Bhat of Welcome Travels, Chetan Gandhi of Travel 360 Tours & Travels and Siddhartha Shah of Primark Travel House. Eapen informed the members that during the National Managing Committee meet in March 2019, it was decided to commercialise the i-Top project so that all the members who are also the stakeholders in this project will get their respective share. “We are in the process of formulating a strategy. Many products are already integrated in the i-Top platform and we need a dedicated team to work for its promotion and marketing. i-Top offers three different platforms — ticketing through GDS, access to OTAs and consolidators pricing and NDC via internet,” he said. IAAI Women’s Cell Eapen also announced the formation of an ‘IAAI Women’s Cell’ to be headed by Aruna Shetty, Director, IAAI and requested her to co-opt members from all other states before June 2019.