Under the Modi govt’s flagship Vande Bharat Mission, Air India will operate 64 flights to 12 countries to evacuate around 12,000 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.
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 flight, two ships 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.
