Air India, Vistara crew operating India-UK flights being brought back on aircraft’s return journey

NEW DELHI: Air India and Vistara crew who operated flights to London on Monday and Tuesday are being flown back to India on the same aircraft’s return journey. The reason: With passenger flights to and from UK scheduled to be suspended from Wednesday till the year-end, there is no need to station crew in London for now.
Air India director (operations) Captain R S Sandhu was in London on Monday and was supposed to operate a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Delhi. This aircraft reached London early Monday morning (local time) fom Goa and just then the Indian government had announced flight suspension. Captain Sandhu then immediately decided not to keep any AI crew member stationed in London.
He asked the three pilots and nine cabin crew who had flown the B787 from Goa to London to remain on board. Captain Sandhu and other crew members boarded the aircraft from London to operate the flight back to Delhi with their colleagues who had flown in from Goa travelling as passengers now (technically called dead head crew), reaching here just after Monday-Tuesday midnight.