Indian airlines begin vaccine deliveries
NEW DELHI: Indian airlines, including Air India Limited, IndiGo, SpiceJet, and GoAir, will on Tuesday operate as many as nine flights from Pune to different cities carrying 56.5 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccines, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said.
Vaccine doses will be delivered in New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Bengaluru, Lucknow, and Chandigarh, Puri said on microblogging platform Twitter.
The first two flights for vaccine transport on Tuesday morning were operated by SpiceJet and GoAir, Puri added.
No-frills carrier SpiceJet, which carried the first batch of coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, will ferry multiple consignments to different cities including Guwahati, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Patna and Vijayawada through the day.
