Diwali 2025 at Flight Desk India: Lamps, Laughter and a Full Booking Desk
How our team celebrated the festival of lights while keeping every traveller's Diwali trip on schedule
By Neha Mahajan, Co-founder & CEO · Tue Oct 21 2025 · Published by Flight Desk India
Diwali is the one week of the year when our phones never stop. Families abroad want to be home for the festival, fares move every few hours, and somebody always needs one more seat on a flight that is already full. So we celebrate the way the desk allows: in shifts, loudly, and with the sweets kept well away from the keyboards. The office got its lights up first The decorating started two days early.
Rangoli by the reception, marigold strings along the window line, and a row of diyas on the front desk that our night shift lit again at 2am when the North America calls came in. "Every family we put on a flight this week is going to walk into a house that looks like this. That is the whole job." — Ramit Kumar, Founder & Director Sweets, a lunch nobody planned, and one very competitive rangoli contest Lunch was supposed to be catered.
What actually happened is that eleven people brought food from home, the tables were pushed together, and the consultants who had never met the accounts team properly finally did. The rangoli contest was judged by our newest joinee — a decision the runners-up are still contesting. Best rangoli: the reservations pod, unanimously Most sweets eaten: withheld, on request Longest continuous call during the party: 47 minutes, and yes, that booking closed The desk never actually closed Two consultants stayed on the floor through the celebration, which is why 63 families flew out on time that week.
Diwali is our peak season, and a festival is not a reason for somebody's mother to miss her flight to Amritsar. What Diwali travel looks like from our side of the desk If you are planning next year's festival trip, the pattern repeats almost exactly: Fares to Delhi, Amritsar and Ahmedabad start climbing about ten weeks out. The cheapest departures are the two or three days after the main festival date, not before.
Return seats in the second week of November are the first thing to sell out — book the return before the outbound if you have to choose. Happy Diwali from all of us in Mohali. If you are flying home next year, start the conversation early and we will hold the good seats for you.