Russia has closed its airspace for planes from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia, including transit flights, the country’s Federal Agency for Air Transport announced on Sunday. “Due to the unfriendly decisions of the aviation authorities of Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Estonia, restrictions are being introduced on air carriers of these states and/or those registered there […]
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IndiGo to operate flights to Budapest, Bucharest to evacuate Indians
The country’s largest carrier IndiGo will operate flights to Budapest and Bucharest to bring back Indians who are stranded in Ukraine, according to an airline official. For now, the airline has decided to operate one flight each to Budapest (Hungary) and Bucharest (Romania). The flights will be operated through Istanbul. Earlier, the carrier was scheduled […]
Ukraine crisis: IndiGo to operate flights to Budapest to bring back Indians
IndiGo will operate two flights to Budapest to bring back Indians who are stranded in Ukraine, according to an official. The flights will be operated on Monday and Tuesday from Delhi. They will first fly to Istanbul and then to Budapest in Hungary. In the return leg, the flights will come to Istanbul and then […]
Ukraine crisis: Flight with 240 Indians takes off from Hungary for Delhi
The third flight to Delhi with 240 Indian nationals has taken off from Hungary’s Budapest under Operation Ganga, informed External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Sunday morning. “The third flight of #OperationGanga with 240 Indian nationals has taken off from Budapest for Delhi,” Jaishankar tweeted. Amid the ongoing Ukraine-Russia crisis, the Indian Embassy in […]
4th evacuation flight carrying 198 Indians leaves for Delhi from Bucharest
A fourth evacuation flight carrying 198 Indians from Romanian capital Bucharest left for India on Sunday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said. Following the closure of Ukranian airspace, India is facilitating evacuation of stranded Indians from Ukraine through its land border crossings with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The first evacuation flight carrying 219 Indians […]
4th flight with 198 Indians stuck in Ukraine leaves from Bucharest: EAM
The fourth flight has left Bucharest (Romania) for Delhi to bring back 198 stranded Indians from Ukraine safely under operation Ganga, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said on Sunday. “Operation Ganga continues. The fourth flight has left to bring our 198 Indians from Bucharest to Delhi safely,” Jaishankar said in a Tweet. Earlier in […]
Three more Air India flights bring back 688 Indians from Ukraine
As many as 688 Indian nationals returned here on Sunday from strife-torn Ukraine on board three Air India evacuation flights from Romanian capital Bucharest and Hungarian capital Budapest. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that approximately 13,000 Indians are stranded in Ukraine as of now, and the government is making efforts to bring them back […]
Air India flights carrying 490 Indian evacuees from Ukraine land in Delhi
Air India’s two evacuation flights, one from Romanian capital Bucharest and another from Hungarian capital Budapest, carrying 490 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine landed at the Delhi airport on Sunday morning, government officials said. India on Saturday began the evacuation of its stranded citizens amid the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, with the […]
Air India evacuation flights costing Rs 7-8 lakh per hour: Source
As Air India ferries hundreds of Indians stranded in Ukraine, the cost of operating a two-way evacuation flight will be more than Rs 1.10 crore and the amount will go up depending on the duration of the flights. The airline is operating the services with wide-body Boeing 787 plane, better known as Dreamliner, from neighbouring […]
Chhattisgarh to bear travel cost of state’s people returning from Ukraine
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday said his government will bear the expenses of people from the state who are returning home from Ukraine, which has been invaded by Russia. The state government will bear the expenses of those people, including students, of Chhattisgarh, who are stuck in Ukraine and are returning home on […]
Ukraine: AI flight carrying Indian evacuees to arrive in Mumbai in evening
The campaign to repatriate Indian nationals from Ukraine has commenced as the first Air India flight, AIC-1944, from Bucharest in Romania carrying 219 Indian evacuees from Ukraine, is expected to arrive in the city late evening, an official statement said on Saturday. The Air India flight had departed from Mumbai at 3.38 am on Saturday […]
Ukraine crisis: AI evacuation flight expected to land in Mumbai at 8 pm
An Air India Boeing aircraft, which departed from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here for Romanian capital Bucharest early morning on Saturday to bring back Indian citizens stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive, is expected to arrive here at 8 pm, the airport operator said. CSMIA, in a statement, also said […]