Sahara lands in Lanka to cheer, champagne

Brand ambassador Aishwarya Rai also decided to stay away from the event, even as her life-size posters generously dotted the airports both at Chennai and Colombo. And while celebrations quite didn’t pick up on the flight itself, it was partners Jetwings that threw in cake and champagne at the Colombo airport.

But the beginning was not without the glitches — flight delays, short time for transit from the domestic terminal at Chennai to the International, lack of information from the PR company C Cube and the airline officials. But Bose had a promise: ‘‘This is just the beginning. We will be starting flights to Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldives in April and then extend operations to the rest of the world.’’ ‘‘Our USP is that we have constantly innovated,’’ Bose said.