The day after the celebrations marking the launch of the Chennai-Reunion line by the Indian company IndiGo, it is the impression that dominates. The sine qua non condition for developing leisure and business exchanges between the second most populous country in the world and our island is in place..
April 29, IndiGo inaugurated the direct connection between Chennai and Reunion. A connection which will be operated three times a week by Airbus A320. To mark the event, Indian and French personalities took their seats on this first flight : French side, French Ambassador to India Thierry Mathou, and the Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai Étienne Rolland-Piègue ; Indian side, one of the main executives of IndiGo, Vinay Malhotra, Head of Global Sales. “This destination marks an important step in the expansion of our international network. With this connection, IndiGo becomes the only Indian airline to offer a direct connection between India and Reunion. Whether for tourism, business or family visits, this new service offers more choice and simplicity to our customers”, welcomed Vinay Malhotra. Chennai is also a gateway to the rest of India and Asia. “The opening to marketing of the connection between Reunion Island and Chennai constitutes a major step in the international development of our platform”, noted Thomas Dubus, chairman of the board of directors of La Réunion-Roland-Garro airport, underlining “the result of long-term work carried out with our institutional and economic partners, and which is fully in line with our strategy of market diversification and strengthening of territorial connectivity. »*
Reunion seduction operation
This first Chennai-Reunion flight also carried a delegation of Indian entrepreneurs, experts in their respective fields (tourism, industry, hotel, renewable energies, agriculture, biotechnology), came to learn about business opportunities and cooperation possibilities. Membres du Copying (Global Organization of people of Indian Origin), they were led by the president of the local committee Gopio on Reunion Island, Richard Souprayenmestry. This professional delegation stopped at Cirest, at the Port and the Western Territory, where communities have highlighted their assets to welcome possible Indian investments. The discovery of the economic fabric of Reunion continued at the CCI Réunion, as well as with the Association of Industrialists of La Réunion (A). Last February 22, c’est la People of Indian Origin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PICKS) France and Francophonie, regional branch of this global economic network of the Indian diaspora, which had been inaugurated locally. So many points of contact inserting Reunion Island into the movement of strategic rapprochement between France and India.
