To & from IGI: Flights to 28 new global destinations
New Delhi: The post-Covid world may not be an oyster for now, but the capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has seen direct charter flights operate to and from 28 destinations globally, which were not connected to the city earlier.
Indians flew in and foreigners flew out on these first-time direct routes like Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Brisbane in Australasia, Dublin in Ireland, Lubumbashi in Congo and Minsk in Belarus.
Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said 92 repatriation flights, with 8,000 passengers, flew to and from these 28 cities.
Air India said it operated flights from Delhi and Mumbai to 20 cities where no other Indian carrier had been to in “recent memory”. Among these included Auckland, Vancouver, Minsk, Manama, Helsinki, Dublin and Seychelles.
The national carrier is hoping to start regular flights to some of these non-network destinations like Auckland and Vancouver, given their huge demand. SpiceJet, meanwhile, flew all-cargo charters to new destinations like Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Baghdad, Cebu, Tashkent, Incheon, Khartoum, Cairo, Bishkek, Almaty and Moscow.
