HYDERABAD: The first special evacuation flight from Bahrain landed at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday evening, with 175 passengers on board — 174 adults and one infant. The Air India Express flight, IX 890, operated under phase 2 of the Vande Bharat Mission, reached Hyderabad at 8.31 pm. All passengers were escorted out of the facility — to paid quarantine centres in the city — through a fully sanitised arrivals international terminal, an airport source said.
While the flight came as a huge relief to many Indians, several Bahrain nationals from Hyderabad appealed to authorities to provide a return flight to their country. “Why are there no flights from Hyderabad to Bahrain? Aren’t there any Bahraini residents in Hyderabad wishing to travel to Bahrain? Though there is a flight coming back to Hyderabad from Bahrain.
