Covid-19: Air India flight from London lands with 329 passengers in Mumbai
A total of 329 people who were stranded in the UK due to travel restrictions arrived here in an Air India flight on Sunday morning.
The special evacuation flight AI 130 — operated with a Boeing 777 plane — which departed from London on Saturday, landed at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) at around 1.30 am with 326 Indians, a source said earlier in the day.
A civil aviation ministry spokesperson said there were 329 passengers in the flight.
The flight is one of the 64 flights that are being operated by Air India and Air India Express as part of ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ to bring back Indians stranded in different countries in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
