Ramnath Shenoy

Guangzhou (China), Oct 25 (PTI) Hong Kong-based airline Dragonair is upbeat about the Indian market as it believes that the country has a good mix of corporate, trade and leisure passengers to drive demand.

Dragonair Chief Executive Officer James Tong said that India is one of the countries that Dragonair sees has big potential because there are corporate travel as well as leisure one, especially from Hong Kong.

The airline, which is a member of the Cathay Pacific Group, launched a daily passenger service to Bangalore in July last year, but early this year, following the economic slowdown, it cut down the service to four times a week.

"Our immediate aim is to fly daily (to Bangalore) very soon," he told reporters here.

While a few months till August was "not very optimistic", advance bookings show that "some kind of business is coming back.