dabolim the tourism season in the state officially got under way with the first charter flights of the season landing at dabolim on tuesday bringing 395 stourists the flights from moscow and yekatrinaberg landed at 2am and 5am respectively bush miranda chairman of the airport operators association said a nordwind airlines flight from moscow for sita travels carrying 210 passengers was the first to arrive it was followed by an orion air flight from yekatrinaberg for pegas with 185 passengers though an airport advisory committee meeting was held earlier this month for smooth flow of tourists some passengers were seen complaining about their baggage locks being found in a broken state no complaints were filed with the vasco police though so far 738 charter flights have confirmed landings for the season the number is likely to cross 900 by the time the charter season ends in march 2013 of the 738 flights 70 are from russia but the british are coming too followed by flights from ukraine kazakhstan latvia poland germany sweden finland etc asked how tour operators were viewing the new season ernest dias vice president sita travel goa said right now the season seems promising he felt the negative image that is going out from goa was a concern these included the delay in the shack policy lack of regulation of water sports activities etc dias said sita was bringing flights from 10 different regions this year we are getting one flight from moscow every week goa the countrys smallest state attracts over 90 of the charter arrivals in the country and charter tourists form a major chunk of the states visitors charter tourists constituted almost 80 of arrivals in the past but over the last 23 years the proportion has started dropping slightly