Olaf Iversen is back in Kolkata after 37 years – feels Kolkata should have direct flights to Europe

Olaf Iversen is the new consul-general of the Federal Republic of Germany and he is back in Calcutta 37 years after his first posting. In his opinion, direct flights from the city to European destinations is necessary for prosperity. Germany is working to increase investment in India but, Kolkata is on the east side of the country and Europeans normally first look at the western part of India.
However, the time has come to make people in Germany aware that it is worthwhile to look further east.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 3 October 2015.

On the subject of Lufthansa, he has clarified that it used to be a government-owned enterprise but now it is private one and they have to make the decisions themselves on commercial grounds.
Of course, Lufthansa has been told about the brand new terminal here and also that there are practically no direct flights from Kolkata to Europe. This could be suitable exploited - a good idea would be to have a direct flight to Frankfurt and from there people can move on to many other places.
It seems Lufthansa is contemplating on these lines – it was in Kolkata earlier and maybe they will return.
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