How Air India scripted history with its Wuhan evacuation
Air India flights 1348 and 1349 will go down in history for various reasons. The flights to and from Wuhan in China evacuated Indians stranded there after the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in the first medical evacuation for Air India in over 70 years of existence. This will probably also be the last evacuation while the Maharaja is still owned by the government.
“Our flights to China were AI 348 leaving from here and AI 349 coming back hence these numbers were given. The additional 1 was put before the flights to denote that these were special flights,” explained Captain Amitabh Singh, Director – Operations, Air India.
