In an emotional publish on social media platform X, Vistara Airways despatched a farewell message to its companions earlier than ceasing operations forward of its merger with Air India.
Within the message, Vistara’s account stated, “Because the airplane ascends, so do our desires; let’s glide towards the longer term, the place the sky isn’t the restrict, however only the start.”
In addition they added a tag “to restricted prospects” to sign their new future as Air India.
The airline introduced that from September 2024, prospects would progressively lose the power to make bookings with Vistara for journey dates from 12 November 2024 onwards.
The merger between Vistara Airways and Air India, first introduced in November 2022, will see Singapore Airways holding a 25.1% stake within the newly mixed airline as soon as the deal is finalized.
Vistara CEO Vinod Kannan has acknowledged that the merger goals to supply passengers extra choices by increasing the fleet and community, whereas additionally enhancing the general journey expertise.
“Cross-functional groups from Air India and Vistara have been working collectively for a lot of months to make the transition of plane, flying crew, ground-based colleagues and, most significantly, our valued prospects, into the brand new Air India as seamless as doable,” Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson stated earlier.
Passengers additionally poured out emotional messages sharing their recollections with the service service and hoping that the brand new iteration can be simply pretty much as good.
Based on one passenger, the crew of one of many final flights Vistara Airways would take immediately, performed the Bollywood track “Kal ho na ho” after the flight landed as a farewell.
