The fourth India v West Indies ODI will be staged in Dharamshala as
scheduled. However, arranging flights for the teams has turned out to be
an astroturfing exercise for the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI). Its officials ran form pillar to post and pulled the right
strings to make it happen. A bit of emotional blackmailing too was
undertaken to make sure the series schedule remained unchanged.
The BCCI maintained a refrain that the carriers cannot say no to the national team. The 'national' sentiment has worked as after steadfastly refusing to fly to Dharamshala, a couple of airlines - Air India and Spicejet - relented. Air India has a policy of not running chartered flights and the BCCI has contended that a national carrier cannot say to the national team. After a lot of persuasion, Air India agreed to spare an ATR (a small aircraft) as did Spicejet - owned by Sun TV, which runs the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad. Neither, apparently, is charging the BCCI any extra money for the outof- turn favour.
Read news in full 11/10/14 Vijay Tagore/Ahmedabad Mirror
The BCCI maintained a refrain that the carriers cannot say no to the national team. The 'national' sentiment has worked as after steadfastly refusing to fly to Dharamshala, a couple of airlines - Air India and Spicejet - relented. Air India has a policy of not running chartered flights and the BCCI has contended that a national carrier cannot say to the national team. After a lot of persuasion, Air India agreed to spare an ATR (a small aircraft) as did Spicejet - owned by Sun TV, which runs the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad. Neither, apparently, is charging the BCCI any extra money for the outof- turn favour.
Read news in full 11/10/14 Vijay Tagore/Ahmedabad Mirror
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