A hark back to the first Vistara flight

Vistara Airlines’ inaugural international service to Singapore from Delhi was at once a flight going back in time and into the future.

The airline checked in passengers for its Singapore flight at the same check-in counter from where it checked in its first passengers for its debut flight, in January 2015.

In 2015, Airbus officials along with other dignitaries and passengers boarded the A-320 aircraft for the Mumbai flight. This time it was the turn of Boeing officials to board the aircraft the flight signalling Vistara’s international foray.

For Rishi Kochhar, a 32-year-old who runs a think tank in Amritsar, none of this mattered. What was important was that by virtue of checking in online 48 hours before the flight, he became the first passenger to check in for the inaugural flight.