Under the Modi govt’s flagship Vande Bharat Mission, Air India and Air India Express will operate 64 flights to 13 countries to fly back 14,800 stranded Indian citizens. Not only to the rescue for of the stranded citizens abroad, Air India is also booking tickets to fly people out of India to the US, UK and Singapore.
Air India and Air India Express will repatriate stranded Indian citizens from Gulf countries, Southeast Asia, US and UK. According to civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri, over 200,000 Indians abroad had registered for repatriation and that the final number could be twice that. Apart from the Air India and Air India Express flights, two ships – under the Samundra Setu mission – were also sent off to Maldives to evacuate some 1,000 Indian citizens while another was headed for the Gulf.
The Air India flights will be operated from 7th May to 15th May, as the aviation ministry’s schedule indicate.
