GUWAHTI, INDIA, March 19, 2003: So many people of north east India have refused to fly on Thursdays, Air India has been forced to change its schedule to Sundays. “It is now official. The flight will be on Sunday,” said an Air India official here yesterday, much to the relief of the travel agents for whom it had been a big headache. “There is a long tradition of not doing anything good on Thursday afternoons. So why should one fly abroad?” asked Powal Barua of Travel Aid. Air India, which initially wanted to drop the flight, has now rescheduled it, giving in to the region’s overwhelming demand. HPI is interested to learn the reason this area of India considers Thursday inauspicious.
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