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Speaker 1: We're one step closer to direct flights between New Zealand

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Speaker 1: and India. Air New Zealand and Air India working together

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Speaker 1: to get flights off the ground in twenty twenty eight. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's still three years away, but Air New Zealand hasn't

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Speaker 1: got any planes to make it happen sooner. India New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Business Council chair Baratchawla is with us. Good evening,

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Speaker 1: Hey get you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning from India to at the moment.

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Speaker 1: All right, okay, well good morning to you. How popular

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Speaker 1: to expect this flight, this route to be.

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Speaker 2: I think we been holding for vulging or voting it

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Speaker 2: from from long time. It will be a lot. See

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Speaker 2: if you see the Indian dice for which is around

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Speaker 2: three hundred thousand fair and tech people, there are or

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Speaker 2: six person of the population. Even we take one way

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Speaker 2: or two, don't right, there will be a lot of movement.

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Speaker 2: And with the amount of tourism promotion have been going on,

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Speaker 2: we expect this number will be bigger and stronger.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how much of this is meeting a demand

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Speaker 1: and how much is it going to actually create huge demand?

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Speaker 2: See, there are multiple layers here, depend upon how we

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Speaker 2: open tourism. How the visa process works in India. I

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Speaker 2: give an example compared to Vietnam. Vietnam opened a direct

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Speaker 2: flight the business of or unfolded multi five weeks to

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Speaker 2: ten x. If you see that within six months to

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Speaker 2: one year, wow, So the multiplication can be done faster

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Speaker 2: because Indian community or Indians in India will be one

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Speaker 2: of the largest traveling population in coming years.

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Speaker 1: How currently, how long does it take to get from

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Speaker 1: between New Zealand and India apurrently?

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Speaker 2: I believe if I say the minimum time is eighteen hours,

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Speaker 2: the maximum can be roughly twenty four to thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Hours and multiple what will that reduce to? Sorry, friendsrat time?

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Speaker 2: It can go up to twelve to fourteen hours or

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Speaker 2: sixteen hours max. Depend upon you. Again, this is a flight,

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Speaker 2: and then what kind of aircraft has been used on?

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Speaker 1: Who's the target group for these flights? Is it can

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Speaker 1: you find it? Or is it broad based?

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Speaker 2: It will be broad based because what we are seeing

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Speaker 2: is that the business which is seeing the bit of

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Speaker 2: challenges of having multiple layovers and going on that is

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Speaker 2: not also taking place because of the the the flight connectivity.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, the again, the target group is

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Speaker 2: still the community and the diaspora, but education, immigration and

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Speaker 2: like tourism will get a lot more boost if things

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Speaker 2: go right.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. Look, you've been in India with the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: for the last few days. The impression we get back

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Speaker 1: here is that things are pretty bullish, that there's a

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Speaker 1: really good feel about it. How has the trip been

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Speaker 1: from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it is bullish. It is a positive going on.

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Speaker 2: I will say that both the governments are actually in

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Speaker 2: a phase and favor to work at a speed. I

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Speaker 2: believe you might have heard the speech of mister Goyle,

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Speaker 2: who's a trade and counterpart for a minister totomical lay.

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Speaker 2: They wanted to be done faster. But again what we

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Speaker 2: are seeing is that it should not be done in

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Speaker 2: a two rush. It should be well thought deal. Whatever happens.

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Speaker 1: Do you have your own guess on how long it's

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Speaker 1: going to take to put a deal together.

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Speaker 2: I think because there are examples from twenty sixteen and

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Speaker 2: there's a recent example for Australia something the circle of

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Speaker 2: twelve months time should be a good time for this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all the things happen, which is a good enough time

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Speaker 2: for things because we have a lot of now in

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Speaker 2: India's and multiple FTAs, so it's a good they have

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Speaker 2: some what you called pre drafted things, are there, so

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Speaker 2: not much to be done from zero?

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because they're starting with some other some stuff

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Speaker 1: already sort of Matt, I guess, yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 2: The same time, the Australia has also been already done,

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Speaker 2: so we know what they've got and what we can

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Speaker 2: get a benefit out of it. Excellent.

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Speaker 1: Well, that sounds very positive. I really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Barratt. That is Barachal. He's a India New Zealand

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Speaker 1: Business Council and he's currently in India with with our

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