NEW DELHI: The first of six Air India repatriation flights to bring Indians stranded abroad, in the aftermath of lockdowns because of the covid-19 pandemic, landed in New Delhi on Friday.
“Flight no. AI381 from Singapore has landed in Delhi. Welcome home. Thank @airindiain @MoCA_GoI, Bureau of Immigration and Delhi Government for cooperation and support. Appreciate the exemplary effort of Team @IndiainSingapor led by HC @JawedAshraf5″ Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar said in a post on Twitter.
The flight from Singapore is the third since India launched operation Vande Bharat to bring back 15,000 Indians from 13 countries. The airlift is seen as the most extensive operation of its kind since India evacuated 177,000 Indians from Iraq and Kuwait in the early 1990s.
