CHICAGO: In a formal luncheon event held here at Vermilion Restaurant downtown, Etihad Airways invited Midwest consolidators for its maiden award ceremony in Chicago.
Etihad Airways has successfully completed four years of operations to Chicago transporting passengers to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Middle East and many other destinations worldwide. The Airline has recently been voted by travelers as the best and Number One choice in a media survey conducted at O’Hare airport.
Denise Harvill, Etihad Airways Vice President Central USA, together with Patrick Dunne, National Accounts Manager, inaugurated the event. Etihad Airways Chicago team members, Mohammad Anwar, Manali Vitkar, Sandra Dekoj and Murielle Achkar welcomed the guests. Denise Harvill thanked the loyal travel agents for joining the event and remarked that the award ceremony was organized to recognize and appreciate the support of travel agents.
As Etihad Airways completes four years in Chicago, the daily non-stop service will soon be upgraded with new Boeing 777-300 modern version aircraft, she said. Patrick Dunne who had specially flown from New York for the event, also thanked the supporting agents.
Denise Harvill and Mohammad Anwar jointly presented the awards to select consolidators for sales performance for 2012. Skybird Travel, Air Tours, Krisbi Travel, Evia Travel, Imperial Travel, RK Travel, Aero Travel, Pleasant Travel, Skylink and Riya Travel were among the recipients’ of the awards.
The owners and staff members of the award winning agency were invited to podium. Among the winners were Umesh Patel and Masood Akram of Skybird Travel, Mafat Patel of Air Tours, Birju Bhagat of Krisbi, Faizan and Syeeda of Evia Travel, Rizwan of RK Travel, Asghar Ali of Aero Travel, Raj of Skylink, Prince of Imperial Travel and Shahbaz from Pleasant Travel.
As the event concluded, Anwar, Manali and Sandra congratulated the agents for the sales performance awards.
A.Q. Siddiqui
India Post News Service