Australia’s biggest travel provider Flight Centre Limited, which has recently entered the leisure travel market in India under the ‘Flight Shop’ banner, has appointed Gaurav Luthra as the Country Head of the brand in India. Mr. Luthra was earlier working in the capacity of Vice President (North & East) for FCm Travel Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd., which is the corporate wing of Flight Centre.

Gaurav Luthra has been associated with Flight Centre Limited for the past 14 years and has significantly contributed towards the organization’s growth in India. In six months since the introduction of ‘Flight Shop’ in the country, Mr. Luthra has been instrumental in setting up of new branches of the leisure travel division at various locations in the National Capital Region. Now, as Country Head of Flight Shop, Mr. Luthra is working towards making Flight Shop a brand to recon with in the leisure travel market and expand it on PAN India basis.

Keeping in mind the successful record of Flight Centre Limited’s leisure model across the world, Mr. Luthra aims to contribute towards making leisure travel segment in India more organized and consumer friendly.

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Flight Centre Limited is one of the most successful and fastest growing travel groups in the world. The company is headquartered out of Brisbane (Australia) and provides a complete range of travel services to leisure and business travelers across nine countries. Flight Centre Limited’s corporate division called FCm Travel Solutions is the largest Travel and Expense Management Company in the Asia-Pacific region and is a renowned name in the corporate travel management segment in India.

Flight Centre now plans to bring in a new concept of Travel Stores to India by opening Flight Shops in various Metropolitan cities. This is an effort by the company to bring higher level of service concept in India so that corporate level of services can be rendered to the leisure or holiday traveler as well. The company plans to keep these Flight Shops an entirely separate cost/ profit centre and they will not be related with the corporate division FCm Travel Solutions. Through these Flight Shops the company will be targeting Small & Medium enterprises (SME's).