Flight Shop, the leisure brand of Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), Australia, in India, has opened its first retail store in Surat and second franchise outlet, after Hyderabad. With the launch of this store, FCTG, Australia now has 17 operational Flight Shop stores across India. The new Flight Shop store in Surat, aims at re-defining travel experience from the region by focusing on both tailor-made vacations and group holidays catering to different kinds of travellers in the city.
Based at a prime location at VIP High Street, and will cater to the needs of up market urban consumers – families, business travellers, honeymoon couples and groups of travellers. The new retail outlet will offer travellers Flight Shop’s range of products and services – Domestic and International Flights, Customised and Group Holidays, Hotels, Car Transfers, Visa, Cruise holidays, Honeymoon holidays, Adventure holidays and more.
Shravan Gupta, Executive Director – Leisure Businesses, FCM Travel Solutions India (the Indian arm of Flight Centre Travel Group, Australia) said, “We are delighted to launch our first Flight Shop store in Surat- the economical capital of Gujarat. Over the last few years, Surat has grown to become one of the fastest developing cities in the country with constantly rising travel demands of two to three trips in a year per household. As an affluent market driven by diamond and textile merchants, Surat is one of the highest contributors to the GDP amongst other emerging metros such as – Jaipur, Vishakhapatnam and Lucknow.”
Flight Shop’s current footprint extends to a total of 17 stores across Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi and via a combination of owned branches and newly opened franchise outlets. FCTG, Australia plans to open 50 more Flight Shop stores across the country in the next two to three years.
