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The booking office and staff will be shifted to airport in a couple of weeks.The airline continues to have an elaborate booking office system though ticket booking trend has long gone to online. CHENNAI: Air India is all set to close it’s iconic city booking office in Egmore as part of its move to cut down on its property in the city to cut cost and keep only a small unit at Airline House in Meenambakkam at airport. This Diwali, only two people came that too for tickets to Port Blair.There is no move to cut staff but the move is to concentrate the staff in the airport. That is the reason why they have decided to move to airport,” he added.Most of the airlines had shut their city offices because ticket booking has gone online.The office was being kept open on holidays too. “The company was paying 35lakh to 40lakh or more to maintain the building..