SUVA – Fiji expects to sign an air service agreement with India, the government-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) said Monday. A team from India is expected to be in Fiji in January to hold talks over the agreement, Xinhua quoted Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fiji’s attorney-general and minister for civil aviation, as saying.
“Hopefully they will be down here in mid January. We need to finalise that because India is now the second largest outbound market in the world and in the next five to ten years will be the largest outbound market,” Sayed-Khaiyum said.
In a trip to India earlier this year, Sayed-Khaiyum said there was also a possibility of code-sharing by Indian Airlines with Fiji Airways. Due to historical and colonial reasons, nearly 40 percent of Fiji’s population are of Indian descent
,690 and Rs 25,540 per 10 grams, respectively. The precious metal had lost Rs 150 on Monday.
Sovereign, however, remained flat at Rs 22,200 per piece of eight grams in limited deals.
Tracking gold, silver ready dropped Rs 200 to Rs 33,500 per kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs 340 to Rs 33,515. Silver coins too plummeted by Rs 1,000 to Rs 47,000 for buying and Rs 48,000 for selling of 100 pieces.
