Amritsar man launches service for sky ads

It was literally high-flying marketing in Amritsar on Sunday. A city-based man launched a banner towing advertisement service with American Champion 8GCBC aircraft imported from the United States. Scores of people watched with surprise after a plane flew over different parts of the sky in the Holy City carrying the billboard of a developer for about an hour.

“This is the fastest way to reach maximum number of people in very little time,” said Vijay Sharma,Chairman and Managing Director of Fly High Airways Private Limited,who launched the aircraft banner towing services. Sharma,who has an all Indian permit from the Civil Aviation department for Aerial works (banner towing) for his American Champion,claimed that he was being approached by different business establishments to carry their ads in the air.

“I already have a party waiting from Dehradun that also has operations in Garhwal and Nainital to fly their ads. The aircraft would be flown to those places to carry their ads,” he said.

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“ The two pilots for the aircraft are of Indian origin. They are,however,trained for the specific job by the company that supplied the aircraft,” said Sharma.

Sharma added at how he started as a scooter mechanic,then dealt in sale and purchase of cars,after that in the property business and now entered into the aviation sector. “ I intend to get planes for chartered services in the next leg of my business,”he said.