Dubai calls off all Air India Express flights, revokes it later

Hours after the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) suspended Air India Express flights between India and Dubai, the biggest city in the United Arab Emirates, from Friday to October 2, the ban was withdrawn in the evening. The flights were suspension notice was issued after a passenger on a recent Jaipur-Dubai flight operated by Air India Express, the low-cost airline of national carrier Air India, was found to be Covid-19 positive by DCAA authorities. This was the second time the airline flew an infected passenger.

The suspension notice had stated that the flight IX1135 operated by the airline from Jaipur to Dubai International Airport (DIA) had a passenger who had contracted Sars-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19.